In the poem, “You Fit Into Me” (1971), Atwood demonstrates a relationship that is inevitable yet, causes emotional and or physical harm. Atwood does this by utilizing a simile by comparing a relationship to a fish's eye and a hook while using like or as. Atwood compares the relationship to the fish and the hook in order to show her readers the emotional and or physical harm the relationship is causing towards the speaker. Atwood’s uses a simile to demonstrate the significance of the relationship when the speaker states, “You fit into me like a hook into an eye” (l.1-2). The significance of this specific relationship is that this relationship is meant to be due to the fact that the speaker states, “You fit into me” (l.1). Yet, the speaker
