The physical images the author of "Homesick" used to represent her feelings at the start of the story is B. THE GLOBE AND THE YANGTSE RIVER.
Jean, the author, starts the story as a 10-year-old girl living in a city called Hankow in China.
Hankow was next to the Yangtse River. Jean, an American descent borne in China, was conflicted because she feels that she does not belong in China. She wants to go to America and live with her grandmother.