To Have and Have Not
What metaphors are used in To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway?

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The imagery, metaphors, and similes are often urban or military in origin—like with a gigantic marlin that is described in terms of an airplane, submarine, or a depth bomb, or with the two icons of the lawless Prohibition: the Thompson machine gun and sawed-off shotgun, which were favorite weapons in gangland shootouts.
To Have and Have Not