What metaphors are used in Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner?

The language in Crossing to Safety is at the same time straightforward and lyrical. Larry's voice is insightful and natural, full of metaphors and comparisons, which is in character with his vocation as an English professor and writer.

"Naked in Eden, the ultimate atomic family, pink and wet and warm, we lay entangled in the tub, and rescue was so recent, safety so sweet, that I didn't have the heart to tell Sally what had happened to us."