Connotation- valuable, elegant, delicate, expensive, desirable  Using the word chandelier adds a positive and sophisticated mood to this section of the story.   | The author used the phrase fancy chandelier so we can learn how Esperanza's great-grandfather views her great-grandmother. We learn that he loved her and really wanted to marry her. He values her and sees her as a delicate, elegant, desirable woman. The message would have been significantly different if the author said, “As if she were a sack of potatoes.”