How does Vicente Blasco Ibanez use imagery in The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?

Imagery:

"Soon he was seated as a stranger at his own table, eating from the same dishes that his family were accustomed to use, served by men with shaved heads, wearing coarse, striped aprons over their uniforms. That which he was eating was his, the wine was from his vaults; all that adorned the room he had bought: the trees whose boughs were waving outside the window also belonged to him...And yet he felt as though he were in this place for the first time, with all the discomfort and diffidence of a total stranger."