So since we know the plot already, we can focus on other things more acutely this time. I was looking at how different the structure is. We begin with the narrator's words in something like a quasi second person narration. Madame Blanchard is addressed throughout, but she only has two lines of her own dialogue. These must be there for a reason.
Perhaps they show that power relations are not what they seem. The first line is about the narrator pulling too hard on her hair. It is ironic, that Madame Blanchard is the lady of the house, yet within the context of this story, it is the narrator maid that gets all the power. We only have her words to rely on as truth, and she quite literally has Madame Blanchard by the hair.
The second line is "Yes, and then?" which hints that she is so enthralled in the narrator's story to be at the mercy of it. Thus the power structure is inverted: the servant has power not only over Madame Blanchard, but also over us, by being the only vessel through which we are getting information.
