Photograph imagery
Pearl is curious and wants to see the photos promised by Olive. Pearl asks, "Where’s that photograph you said you’d show me?” Olive collects a cased snap and shows it to Pearl, then says, “You can see him much better in this one. Those others, he was always clownin’ around." Olive explains the photos to Pearl, enlightening her by saying, “It’s the four of us at Luna Park, the year before last. Roo, me, Barn— and Nance is on end there.”
The imagery of the doll
Olive’s description of the doll and the gifted reacted portrays sight imagery. Olive says, “She was always in and out the house, and when Roo brought me the first lot of presents, and she saw the doll, among them, she howled her eyes out. She wanted a doll on a-walkin’ stick too, she said. So out of the two of them go-after eight o’clock at night it was-tryin’ to bang up a shop to get her one.”
Age imagery
The age imagery shows Nancy's maturity, and it is compared to her early days, the year after the war. The author writes, “Oh yes, this is finny-listen. Didn’t seem to wake up she was getting’ far too old lolly wakin’ sticks and hair ribbons-kept on bringin’’em down, bringin’ ‘em down-so in the end, Nancy put her up to a dodge.”
