How does Rose use hyperbole to gain attention in the story collection, The Beggar Maid: Stories of Flo and Rose?

Rose reconfigures the "various scandals and bits of squalor from her childhood" into hyperbolic stories, which, in turn, can be "performed" with great effect at cocktail parties. These entertaining yet grotesque parodies of the habits and people of West Hanratty are engaged by Rose as a means of gaining attention and, she hopes, acceptance within each new community she comes in contact with. More important, they also give her a sense of power, the ability, in her mind at least, "to queen over" academics and artists who carry a romanticized notion of what it is to have been born poor.