How does the figurative language in the text affect the meaning of the text? "If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head."

Read the passage below and answer the question, dill was a curiosity. in the excerpt above, the word "curiosity" suggests that dill is odd dill asks a lot of questions dill is hard to understand dill is lost

In a short story the narrator's word choice

When mrs. jameson says "it (the desert) won't leave you cold," what does she mean?