It indicates that Huck frequents places perhaps grocery stores where the conditions are not sanitary what with "sickly eggs and rotten cabbages and dead cats" in other words, Huck cannot afford to frequent fancier shops or fancier homes because he is poverty stricken and used to such sights.
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living in fear creates a prison of one’s own making, Avoiding and withdrawing from what we fear, and to live happily ever after.
In Nadine Gordimer´s "1959: what is Apartheid?" she quotes "... If you want to know how Africans-black men and women-live in south African, you will get in return for your curiosity an exposition of apartheid in action, for in all of a black man´s life, all his life, rejection by the white man has the last word.
In Athol Fugard´s "Master Harold...and the boys" Hally, one of the characters said "the truth? I seem to be the only one around here who is prepared to face it . We´ve had the pretty dream, it is time now to wake up and have a good long look at the way things really are".
In both works we can see the level of discrimination and inequality of the Apartheid in South Africa until the 1990´s during Nelson Mandela´s government.
It's a metaphor.
To help you understand why, here's the definitions of both:
Simile: it's a <span>figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another thing of a different kind, it's used to make writing seem more vivid.
Metaphor: this is also a</span><span> figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
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