How does Isabel Allende use imagery in The House of the Spirits?

Examples of Imagery:

"She was one of those people who was born for the greatness of a single love, for exaggerated hatred, for apocalyptic vengance, and for the most sublime forms of heroism but she was unable to shape her fate to the dimensions of her amorous vocation, so it was lived out as something flat and gray trapped between her mother's sickroom walls, wretched tenements, and the tortured confessions with which this large, opulent, hot-blooded woman made for maternity, abundance, action, and ardor- was consuming herself."

"The past and the future were part of the same thing and the reality of the present was a kaleidoscope of disordered mirrors, where anything could happen."