How does Anne Morrow Lindbergh use imagery in Gift from the Sea?

Imagery:

Every day she travels to the beach with a faded straw bag filled with "books, clean paper, long over-due unanswered letters, sharpened pencils, lists, and good intentions," (pg. 15).

"It looks rather like the house of a big family, pushing out one addition after another to hold its teeming life—here a sleeping porch for the children, and there is a veranda for the play-pen here a garage for the extra car and there is a shed for the bicycles," (pg. 80).