I had this on my test the other day
Answer:
Dorothy Parker's "Agreement in Black and White" shows an illustration, or rather a metaphor of how skin color is a barrier to social progress among Caucasian and Black individuals. In this writing she is strong and powerful standing up to all those who opposed the civil rights movement. But in her responses in her interview form Paris Review she saw herself as a girl among giants and had a lot of self-doubt. She called her poems “silly verses,” cringed when people called her a “humorist,” and considered her work a failure because she wanted to be known for her satire.
Answer: It gives us depth to how he is feeling
Explanation:
The use of his figurative langugae relaly gives us an understanding to how fragile he feels. Using "delicate as a dandelion" tells us how vulnerable he is, that anything can break him (or his character)
