How does Truman Capote use imagery in Other Voices, Other Rooms?

Imagery:

"It was as if he lived those months wearing a pair of spectacles with green, cracked lenses, and had wax-plugging in his ears, for everything seemed to be something it wasn't, and the days melted in a constant dream." pg. 10

"It was though a brutal hawk had soared down and clawed away Joel's eyelids, forcing him to gape at her throat." pg. 72