How does the author use imagery in the novel, Work: A Story of Experience?

Enriching imagery is used throughout the novel, some of the most noteworthy encompassed in quaint remarks by characters of humble status. "Folks is very like clothes, a sight has to be done to keep 'em clean and whole," the laundress Cynthy Wilkins tells Christie. "All on us has to lend a hand in this dreadful mixed-up wash, and each do our part." Cynthy's ways of speech, and those of Christie's Uncle Enos and Hepsey Johnson the former slave, illustrate Alcott's use of dialect, sometimes unfortunately stereotypical, more often humorously effective.