What metaphors are used in Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann?

The Buddenbrooks arranged formal dinner parties very often, and these parties always were the ones to take an example of. Everything so splendid and beautiful, meals so delicious and always pleasant company. At one of such dinners madame Yungman closed up the curtains and all that beauty in a second lighted up the room with shivering light. Wealthy was everywhere and guests’ eye were pleasantly idling from side to side observing cut-glass ware.