The imagery of sight
The narrator is being interviewed by a group of professors for her new position to teach. She answers several questions and remembers that she has not told them that her students sometimes watch episodes related to her topic of expertise. The watching of episodes by the students depict the sense of sight to the readers. The narrator says, “I had not mentioned that my classes also watched episodes of Dark Shadows and read Anne Rice.”
The imagery of hearing
The author depicts the sense of hearing to the reader through the conversation between the narrator and Elizabeth Book. While in Elizabeth's office, the narrator explains to Elizabeth how she developed an interest in fairytales and got motivated to write her book about vampires and demons. The narrator says, "I grew up listening to my mother and father telling Scottish fairytales." The narrator's father is Scottish and he took most of his time telling the narrator fairytales about Scotland. The narrator does all these to convince Elizabeth that she has a background of storytelling and she deserves the get the job she is being interviewed for.
The Imagery of a shadowy young man
The imagery of sight is depicted to the reader when the shadowy handsome young man appears to the narrator in a dream. The narrator sees this young man as a lover and the prince of fairytales because he tells stories just as her parents did when they were alive. The narrator says, "Perhaps, too, I could find a clue to why I had such strange dreams after their deaths, dreams in which a handsome but shadowy young man, who I thought of as my fairytale prince, appeared in my room and told me fairy tales just as my parents did.” However, the shadowy young man who turns out to be the narrator’s lover is a demon because he only appears in her dreams.
