What metaphors are used in Lives of Girls and Women by Alice Munro?

Del is a typical adolescent in many ways. Her curiosity about sex, for example, is something that it can be safely assumed crosses the mind of teenagers worldwide, no matter their station in life or religious leanings. It is only the expression of these curiosities that differs amongst young people of various cultures. Perhaps the most graphic act of rebellion on Del's part is when she loses her virginity against the wall of her mother's house. The act is not planned and orchestrated, involving a hotel room and romantic music. It is urgent and almost animalistic. It occurs, metaphorically, just outside her mother's control. In performing an act of which mother would so clearly have disapproved, in the location in which it is performed, Del is essentially thumbing her nose at her mother's authority