In the short story "A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings," what are some examples of similies and metaphors?

There is actually an example of both of these literary
terms in the first paragraph of this excellent story. Before we examine them, however,
let us just remind ourselves about the difference between the two examples of figurative
language. Both similes and metaphors compare one object to another object, but the
difference is that similes do this by using the word "like" or "as," whereas metaphors
assert a direct comparison without these words.

Let us
consider the following quote:

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Sea and sky were a single ash-grey thing, and the
sands of the beach, which on March nights glimmered like powdered light, had become a
stew of mud and rotten
shellfish.

As the landscape
is described as Pelayo wakes up and has to kill more crabs, note the simile that
describes the sand on March nights to "powdered night." However, now, it is a "stew of
mud and rotten shellfish." I hope you realise that this is a metaphor, as it compares
the sands to a stew but without using the word "like" or "as." I hope this gives you the
idea of how to spot and identify and distinguish between similes and metaphors. Go ahead
and re-read this excellent story and see if you can identify any more. Good
luck!