In the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, Cyrano has dozens of attractive qualities-he is a poet, a philosopher, a romantic, etc.-but the love of his life, Roxane, looks right through him because of his shockingly long nose. In a one scene, a soldier tell Cyrano that his nose is “very big”. Cyrano then goes on a rant that takes up almost half a page–basically, if someone’s going to insult his nose, they had better do it right! My picture illustrates an example of a simile that could describe Cyrano’s nose.