The Drover's Wife

In paragraph 18 of The Drover's Wife?

,“As a girl she built the usual castles in the air, but all her hopes and aspirations have long been dead. How does the author use figurative language to contribute to the meaning of the passage?

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Castles in the air" is an idiom, meaning the Drover's wife's hopes and dreams.... all impossible but dreamt of none-the-less.

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