The tent flaps opened and a wizened woman came out – a face wrinkled as a dried leaf and eyes that seemed to flame in her face, black eyes that seemed to look out of a well of horror. She was small and shuddering. She held herself upright by a tent flap, and the hand holding onto the canvas was a skeleton covered with wrinkled skin.
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 13. In this description of Sairy Wilson, there is foreshadowing of her death. This is suggested by a number of metaphors and death imagery. Her eyes look out of a "well of horror" and her hand is a "skeleton covered with wrinkled skin." A simile compares her face to a dried leaf.