How does Sherwood Anderson use imagery in Winesburg, Ohio?

In Alice Hindman's "adventure," the rain releases her suppressed spontaneity; the imagery of falling rain and of leaping and running reveals the potential of Alice's sexual passion and creative vitality. Kate Swift's scarred face is transformed when she walks the winter streets of Winesburg: "... Her features were as the features of a tiny goddess on a pedestal in a garden in the dim light of a summer evening."