What metaphors are used in We the Living by Ayn Rand?

Kira had an idealized opinion on the Revolution. Of course, she knew that it was a cruel period of time, that people died, that some of her family’s friends were shot without a trail, but she was sure that it wasn’t necessary, that there was some other way to do that. Her ideas were destroyed in the “Petrograd Headquarters of the G.P.U.” She was explained that one couldn’t “make a revolution with white gloves on.”