What metaphors are used in My First Goose by Isaac Babel?

One example of Babel's use of figurative language is when the narrator describes "the dying sun, round and yellow as a pumpkin" and "giving up its roseate ghost." This sentence uses a simile as well as a religious reference—to the roseate ghost, or the ghost of Christ. This is what is known as a "mixed metaphor," in which the sun is a pumpkin, but also has a ghost.