![]() ![]() ![]() He uses a classic metaphor of home as roots of a plant, suggesting that when people make a home they burrow deep into the fertile earth. Baldwin writes, "Now he began to wonder if anyone could ever put down roots in this rock" (60). Rufus thinks about his home uptown, his homes with Leona, and his current lack of a home. Here the simile compares the skyscrapers to the phallus, which men often wield to dominate, and to a spear, a weapon that can wound or kill Rufus clearly views the city as aggressive and dangerous towards him. ![]() One such example comes early on in the book when Rufus is perambulating the streets, lonely, starving, and bereft of all real connection to other people: "The great buildings, unlit, blunt like the phallus or sharp like the spear, guarded the city which never slept" (4). Baldwin's imagery and similes often create a nightmarish vision of the city. ![]()
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