As the metaphor for the United States, Dickens was trying to use the garden to represent the United States in his words.
A metaphor can be described as a word that is used symbolically to represent another word.
The sentence shows that Mr. Charles Dickens may have been talking about the gardens in the sentence but the uncomfortable air that he was talking about may have been about the United States of America.
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