How does the second sentence of this quote contain examples of parallelism and why the author broke the pattern in the last clause? "Calpurnia was something else again. She was all angles and bones; she was nearsighted; she squinted; her hand was wide as a bed slat and twice as hard."

The machines come to symbolize the false hopes and promises of the modern age. The narrator's suspicion of these machines is conveyed in his descriptions of the major's case. While the machine works upon his injured hand, the major merely looks out the window. Like the narrator, he is detached. Nevertheless, as the code hero, he goes through the motions; he adheres to the form required of him despite meaninglessness.

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