The Dark Art of Description

I think that part of Patricia Hampl's purpose for writing about description was to show that essentially you can write about anything if you can master describing in detail. The point I think to incorporate the story of the boy who came to her office, complaining that he had nothing to write about in his autobiography, was to show that even if you feel something is unimportant, it is still possible to make it important through things like description and detail.