How does Kurt Vonnegut use imagery in Fates Worse Than Death?

Example of Imagery:

"So my father's life might be seen as a particularly lugubrious fairy tale. He was Sleeping Beauty, and in 1929 not one but several princes, including Bell Telephone, had begun to hack through the briers to wake him up. But then they all got sick for sixteen years. And while they were in the hospital a wicked witch turned Sleeping Beauty into Rip Van Winkle instead."

"The making of pictures is to writing what laughing gas is to Asian influenza."