Early in the story, the narrator tells us that Madame Loisel dreams of grand and elegant surroundings, including "tapestries peopling the walls" (an example of personification, when one gives a human characteristic to a non-human object. When Madame Loisel goes to the party in the expensive dress her husband bought her, and the borrowed pearls, the narrator describes her as being "drunk with pleasure." As the story progresses and the necklace is lost, there is a reference to the toll this financial distress is taking on her husband, who is described as "have aged five years" (an example of hyperbole, or extreme exaggeration).
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