Part one of term paper
The author uses hyperbole and metaphors when describing Bernice's feelings as she walked into the barber shop. "Bernice had all the sensations of Marie Antoinette bound for the guillotine in a tumbrel." The Sevier Barbershop" was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber." The contrast between Marjorie's delicate appeara ...

Part two of term paper
... Marjorie called her bluff about bobbing her hair. As Bernice's hair was being cut, "there was a curious narrowing of her eyes" that foreshadowed her expression when she got the idea to bob Marjorie's hair. "Suddenly she drew in her breath sharply and an expression flashed into her eyes that a practiced character reader might have connected vaguely with the set look she had worn in the barber's chair - somehow a development of it. It was a new look for Bernice - and it carried consequences." ...