Explain why did single-member districts evolve in the house?

What two things are being compared in this epic simile (the odysseus)

What does the quote describe? “the closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us….the shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable.”

Which of the following words best describes gregor’s life as expressed in this passage the metaphorphosis