Аннотация:The connotative power of metaphors in "Of the Farm" helps to impart the underlying themes and values of the story, contributes to the creation of plausible characters and determines the reader's response to the narrative issues. The novel revolves around the dualistic struggle of the pragmatic and the poetic tempers, epitomized respectively by the protagonist and his mother. The powerful religious strand is intertwined with the spatial and water metaphors in the portrayal of Mrs. Robinson, highlighting her inseparability from nature and adherence to the traditional lifestyle. Departing from it is the sequence of the artifact city metaphors, interwoven with the metaphors of destruction and ruin, associated with the narrator.Updike’s gift of metaphors becomes a fragile instrument of raising the commonplace and the ordinary to the realm of Art.п