Difficult Loves
What metaphors are used in Difficult Loves by Italo Calvino?
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In the Stories of Love and Loneliness, Calvino uses the feel of the different fabrics as a metaphor for male and female.
In the section, Wartime Stories, the cave serves as a metaphor of hell, a terrible place of unending torment for those who have been bad enough.
Difficult Loves