Explanation: In the given excerpt we can see Nick's description of Tom and Myrtle's apartment, in this description we can see that Nick's feeling or attitude towards the apartment is that he find it uncomfortable, we can see that because he describes every room as small ("small living room, a small dining room, a small bedroom") and he says that the living room was crowded with furniture that was too large for the space.
If you're talking about "Dreams" by Langston Hughes, that poem uses two key metaphors: "broken winged bird that cannot fly" and a "barren field frozen with snow".