What metaphors are used in A Simple Plan: A Novel by Scott B. Smith?

Metaphor:

"The money, by giving us the chance to dream, had also allowed us to begin despising our present lives. My job at the feedstore, our aluminum-siding house, the town around us - we were already looking upon all that as part of our past. It was what we were before we became millionaires; it was stunted, gray, unlivable."