My questioning of urban diction

At a social gathering, a random stranger supposedly compliments another. Now i recognize this to be a compliment, due to the emotion cues of gratitude exhibited by the stranger being complimented:

For the purpose of this skit, i shall refer to the stranger giving the compliment as "the complimenter" and the stranger receiving the compliment, "the complimentee":

Complimenter: You look fresh.

Complimentee: Thank you, you know it's not easy.

Me: you respond gratitudinally to referral toward yourself such as "fresh". It but recalls memories of my mother, waking up early in the morning in order to pick out "fresh tomatoes and onions" from the early morning market. "Steaming hot fresh out the oven, baked bread". If the elusive obvious, still eludes you, perhaps i shall make it less abstruse for your mental capability by saying, "I'm not learned of urban diction to enunciate such, nor of literary perfection to judge, but my innocent question is "why attribute in-animate characteristics to yourself?", i quite understand the logic of personification, but by value construct, i believe its' nature is from animate object (higher social value) to in-animate object (lower social value). Now, does that mean if your case be blatantly referred to as personification, it is also a transfer of attribute from (higher social value) [tomatoes and onions] to (lower social value) [you]?