what image does the author use to convey her lack of direction before the arrival of anne - English - Sentence Phrase and Clause

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what image does the author use to convey her lack of direction
before the arrival of anne

Hena Mariya Sajid · Answer

It was as if a person wast at sea in a dense fog,when it seemed as
if a tangible white darkness shut one in,and the great ship,tense
and anxious ,groped her way towards the shore with plummet and
sounding line,and one waited with beating heart for something to
happen She was like that ship before her education bean ,only she
was without compass or sounding line and had no way of knowing how
near the harbour was