The narrator’s Description of a Young man who Veronica walked by
As Veronica was heading home, she crossed path with a young man who is described as, ‘...stood a non-hatted blond young man in gray flannels, who was elaborately fixing a stamp to a letter. At the sight of her he became rigid and a singularly bright shade of pink.’ The imagery in the narration is brought about by the use of adjectives such as pink and blond to describe the young man.
Morning-Side Park Avenue
The narrator describes Morning side park which is where Ann and her family lived. It is described as follows, ‘ There was first the avenue, which ran in a consciously elegant curve from the railway station into an underdeveloped wilderness of agriculture with big, yellow brick villas on either side, and then there was the pavement, the little clump pf shops about the post office...’ The narrator achieved imagery by using adjectives such as big and yellow to describe the park.
Ann Veronica
The narrator describes Ann Veronica as, ‘ She had black hair, fine eyebrows, and a clear complexion; she was slender, and sometimes she seemed tall and commit ed herself lightly and joyfully.’ The description has imagery because the narrator has vividly described Ann to the reader using adjectives to describe her features.
Mr. Stanley
The narrator describes Mr. Stanley who was Veronica’s Father as follows, ‘ … a solicitor with a good deal of company business, a lean, trustworthy, worried-looking, neuralgic, clean-shaven man of fifty three, with a hard mouth, a sharp nose, iron-gray hair, gray eyes, gold-framed glasses and a small circular baldness at the crown of his head.’ This description has imagery because the narrator has used adjectives such as sharp to describe his nose and had described his character such that the character can be mentally pictured in the mind’s of the readers.
