English

Gilbert Nash

30 May, 23:31

It was a guillotine indeed, and the hangman was the first barber, who, attired in a white coat and smoking a cigarette, leaned nonchalantly against the first chair.

In the above passage, what is Fitzgerald's primary purpose in using the guillotine metaphor?

to make the act of the haircut seem more ominous

to foreshadow how the haircut will affect Bernice

to introduce the barber as a dangerous man