What metaphors are used in Meeting Mrinal by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni?

Examples of Metaphor:

Because all over India, at this very moment, widows in white saris are bowing their veiled heads, serving tea to in-laws. Doves with cut-off wings.

The ayah, who had recovered by now, stated acidly that it was well known that when ants grow wings, the time of their doom has arrived.