How does F. Scott Fitzgerald use imagery in The Last Tycoon?

Imagery:

"I loved Father--in a sort of irregular graph with many low swoops--but I began to see that his strong will didn't fill him out as a passable man."

"As the whole vision of last night came back to him--the very skin with that peculiar radiance as if phosphorus had touched it--he thought whether it might not be a trick to reach him from somewhere. Not Minna and yet Minna. The curtains blew suddenly into the room, the papers whispered on his desk, and his hear cringed faintly at the intense reality of the day outside his window. If he could go out now this way, what would happen if he saw her again--the starry veiled expression, the mouth strongly formed for poor brave human laughter."