Incident in a Rose Garden

How does Donald Justice use imagery in Incident in a Rose Garden?

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Justice personifies death by drawing on traditional depictions of death and by packing his description with symbolic imagery appropriate to the idea of death. He is dressed in black and is "thin as a scythe" and his mouth "stood open. / . . . with white teeth"—all images we associate with the grim reaper, a popular depiction of death.

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Incident in a Rose Garden