Major Kovaloff can best be described as proud. He is very proud of his station and his rank, and wants everyone to respect him for it. In the story, it says "He did not so much mind people making personal
remarks about him, but it was a different matter when aspersions were cast on his rank or
social standing." This shows that he cares very much about his rank and dislikes when people aren't as respectful as he thinks they should be.
Actually, no it is not. If an absolute statement has a single thing that defies it, that statement is considered to be false. Writing is not always an outlet <span>for the human desire to make things sound better than they actually are. Some literature are aimed at describing a certain situation or expressing what they feel at that moment. It is not always to make things sound better than what they are at the present.</span>
The simile is to hold love like a candle flame. Similes always use like or as.
