Kindred: Pathos 1 key example

In a pathos-filled passage, Tess, an enslaved woman on the Weylin Plantation who serves, under coercion, as a “bed mate” for Tom Weylin, uses a simile that compares her position to that of “a[n] old dog”: 

Poor Tess. Weylin had tired of her as a bed mate and passed her casually to Edwards. She had been afraid Edwards would send her to the fields where he could keep an eye on her. With Alice and I in the house, she knew she could be spared. She had cried with the fear that she would be spared. “You do everything they tell you,” she wept, “and they still treat you like a old dog. Go here, open your legs; go there, bust your back. What they care! I ain’t s’pose to have no feelin’s!”

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