The essay shows how Ford Madox Ford’s tetralogy Parade’s
End, though displaying a general metaphoric structure,
has ties belonging to the metonymic sphere as well.
Metonymies dissolve into metaphors and metaphoric
suggestions lead in turn to metonymic associations.
Through the use of time shift in interior monologues,
Ford can vividly bring forth his characters’ lives and
memories, and while metaphors become the means to
recover their past, metonymies are essential in evoking
it and in setting it in motion again.
