Metal Rim

"She can hear her husband moving around downstairs. A metal lid kisses the rim of its pan"(Cunningham, 42).

Cunningham is using personification to enrich his setting. Settings play a very important role in novels, and one way to add emphases to this is by filling the setting with literary devices, such as personification. Cunningham also uses metaphor, similes, and other personification to accomplish setting in The Hours.