The application of conceptual metaphor theory on literary texts helps in a better understanding of how different feelings are communicated through metaphors. The study adopts insights from the conceptual metaphor theory (CMT) by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson (1980) as a model of analysis on selected metaphors from the novel. The paper investigates the ways the experiences of traumatic stress are communicated via metaphors. Therefore, the main focus of the current paper is to investigate the metaphorical representation of trauma stress in Eric Walters' We All Fall Down (2006). There are many stylistic attempts to examine the trauma in 9/11 literature(Jaff and Al-Jumaili 2020 Al-Jumaili and Jaff 2020 Jaff 2020), however, no study attempted to discuss Eric Walters' We All Fall Down (2006) stylistically.
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