The Country Wife

by William Wycherley

The Country Wife: Style 1 key example

Act 2
Explanation and Analysis:

Stylistically, the dialogue Wycherley writes for his characters is robust in metaphor and figurative language: one cannot go more than a few pages without at least one of the characters—and, most of the time, several—making some kind of analogy or imposing simile onto a situation they find themselves in.