she would boast to much about her daughter and that would upset waverly. she would also boast about waverlys sucess and acheivments all in the market. another is she would stand in front of waverly while she was plotting her game in chess.
The auther uses those details to paint a picture in your mind of what is going on in Madame Loisels life its saying that she is not really poor but also not really rich but she wants to be rich
