Grendel

What metaphors are used in Grendel by John Gardner?

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Grendel’s journey to and conversation with the dragon might have only been in his mind. While there was an actual dragon in the poem Beowulf, Gardner might have made him a metaphor for Grendel’s conflicting state of mind rather than an actual dragon.

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