A Simple Heart

What metaphors are used in A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert?

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Félicité's spiritualization of Loulou achieves the status of a poetic metaphor for the Holy Spirit; as such, it emerges as one of the most exalted expressions of Hugo's romantic synthesis: the sublime residing in the grotesque.

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