The imagery of sight
The sense of sight is depicted to the reader when the narrator describes how his girlfriend dresses. He adores watching his woman dress herself up before going to work. The narrator says, “I used to adore to watch her dressing in the evenings before she went out to the clubs, the theatres, the restaurants where she performed, which I never visited.” The narrator's description helps the reader create a visual image to see how Leila dresses herself up for work bearing in mind that she is a nightclub dancer.
The imagery of smell
Evelyn describes the state of his car when he gets lost in the middle of the forest. He has 12 packets of cigarettes, which he lights up one by one. He later realizes that the car is stuffy and stale. The narrator says, “I stepped out of the stale interior of the car into the sharp, bright sunshine, I staggered at the blow of the fresh air.” After stepping out, the narrator realizes that there is fresh air, which makes him more active as he watches what is happening around him.
The imagery of the perfume
Leila is a night club dance, and she has to do everything to look attractive and smell nice. The narrator describes how Leila takes her time to dress up and spray herself with the best perfume to conceal her sexuality. The narrator says, "Then she sprayed herself with dark perfumes that enhanced rather than concealed the lingering odor of sexuality that was her perfume.”
The imagery of the desert
The description of the narrator's state of confusion depicts the sense of sight to readers. The readers can see what the narrator is going through. Similarly, the imagery creates a vivid picture of the desert landscape. The narrator says, “I am helplessly lost in the middle of the desert, without a map or guide or compass. The landscape unfurls around me like an old fan that has lost all its painted silk and left only the bare, yellowed sticks of antique ivory in a world in which, since I am alive; I have no business."
