Figurative Language Response

Authors Note: This piece, in case you didn't read the title is my figurative language response, I notice that the book plays kind of like a movie, so I refer to parts a scenes. I thought it may be a stretch to call this figurative language but I decided to write anyways. A final possibly unneeded note is that this is on page thirty-seven. (Possible Spoilers )

"She made the empty rooms roar with accusation and shake down a fine dust of guilt that was sucked in their nostrils as they plunged about." This quote, taken from the scene where Montag and his fellow firemen answer the call to the old woman's house, is one of the many uses of figurative language in this novel.

The sentence seems to add a chaotic edge to the entire seemingly orderly operation, setting an undertone of confusion and foreboding that seems to follow books throughout the story. As the woman simply sits there in accusing silence, she shows the heroic side of the seemingly cowardly sort of passive resistance used by the persecuted minority. Bradbury's most likely intent was probably just that, to cast positive light on the escapees.

This quote is pivotal in Montag's stealing of the book, blending in the background of other uses of personification, such as the bird metaphor, is one of the more overlooked moments in the book with importance. With much evidence to support this it's clear that this sentence was used by Bradbury to start certain themes of the book.