1. The vet uses a metaphor in order to tell the narrator to see things the way they really are; to see that he was not the a friend of the wealthy and high classed.
2. The vet is telling the narrator to control his own fate. He is telling him to make his own rules and decisions instead of letting others do it for him.
3. The narrator alludes to the story of Jonah in the bible. He feels as though coming to Harlem is him being thrown up from the belly of a whale.
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