The Public Image
How does Muriel Spark use imagery in The Public Image?
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Imagery:
"As for Annabel, she was portrayed as cool and equal to him in all these respects, except that she was a tiger-woman at heart and in 'the secret part of their lives.' This tiger was portrayed only by her eyes; it was an essential of the public image that the tiger quality was always restrained in public."
"Then Annabel got ready to go, possessed by a furious horror at the abomination Frederick had brought down upon her. He had sent that party, that intolerable party, to be blood on her hands, blood on her public image..."
The Public Image