The Wide Window

What metaphors are used in The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket?

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Aunt Josephine's home is located on a cliff above Lake Lachrymose. Most of the house is supported by wooden beams, which are the only things keeping the house from toppling into the lake. It is destroyed in Hurricane Herman. It is a metaphor for fragility in chaos.