Simile

There are similes throughout the novel like the description of an unconscious Mr. Norton as being like “a formless white death" (pg 86) and when describing Supercargo kicking like "a fungo hitter batting out flies" (pg 83). By using these similes the reader gets a perspective on how the narrator views things. Probably for a white narrator the fact that Mr. Norton looked like death wouldn't have put so much emphasis on the fact that he looked like a white death.