What metaphors are used in Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind: A Novel by Ann B. Ross?

Forgiveness is an underlying metaphor. In the novel Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind, forgiveness plays in important part in the life of the main character, Julia Springer. Julia is a strong-willed woman, who lives her life after forty-four years of marriage as she believes her husband would want her to. Things change for Julia when she discovers that her pious and self-righteous husband has spent the past ten years living in sin, and has fathered a child out of wedlock.