How does the author use imagery in the novel, The Other Alcott?

May is a landscape artist, therefore Hooper often describes landscapes and scenes in the way that May would view them at the time. For example, after one particularly in depth conversation between Louisa and May, May walks around noticing a particular landscape in Boston. Hooper writes, “her eyes left the drab blocks of brick buildings, traveling along the cirrus clouds feathering the vast cerulean blue sky extending out in front of them” (47). She uses words like “feathering” to indicate the texture an artist might use while painting. She describes the landscape in general to show how May viewed the world.