How does Elizabeth Bowen use imagery in The House in Paris?

Imagery:

"Up and down the narrow uphill street the houses were all heights: none so small as the Fishers'. At each end, the street bent out of sight: it was exceedingly quiet and seemed, though charged with meaning, to lead nowhere ... it would not really have surprised Henrietta if no one had ever walked down that street again."

"Feeling like a kaleidoscope often and quickly shaken, she badly wanted some place in which not to think."