Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto
How does Abraham Cahan use imagery in Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto?
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Imagery:
"Flora pictured a clean-shaven, high-hatted, spectacled gentleman jumping out of a buggy, and the image became a fixture in her mind. 'I won't marry anybody except a doctor,' she would declare, with conscious avoidance of bad grammar, as it behooved a doctor's wife."
"But the distance between him and the mayor's office was dwindling fast. Each time the car came to a halt he wished the pause could be prolonged indefinitely; and when it resumed its progress, the violent lurch it gave was accompanied by a corresponding sensation in his heart."
Yekl and the Imported Bridegroom and Other Stories of the New York Ghetto