How does Anzia Yezierska use imagery in Bread Givers?

Examples of Imagery:

"Ach! I was thinking to myself, if only we didn't have to pull out the torn bedding from its hiding place to sleep—the rags to dress ourselves—if only we didn't have to dirty up the new whiteness of the oilcloth with the eating, then it would shine in our house always like a palace. It's only when poor people begin to eat and sleep and dress themselves that the ugliness and dirt begins to creep out of their black holes," Chapter III, p. 38.

"Everything about me was gray, drab, dead. I was only twenty-three and I dressed myself like an old lady in mourning," Chapter XIII, p. 181.