Compare and Contrast: Passage 1: Description of Tom, Passage 2: Gatsby

Comp are and Contrast Passage 1 Description of tom, Passage 2 GatsbyseenThe first race is a description of Tom. He is portrayed as stronglybuilt It was a body capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body. Healso seems to be a brutal an dictatorial man. Words as arrogant,sturdy, gruff and husky create a mood around him which is quiteunpleasant. This description is very objective and we halt a clearpicture of what Tom looks like. We are also given a description ofToms voice as being ...a gruff, husky tenor...The other passage is not really a description of Mr Gatsby, but ratheran occasion which he fits into. The description we are given aboutGatsby is much more unclear than that of Tom. The night makes theatmosphere more mysterious around Gatsby. Here words as night,trembling, silhouette and dark set the theme of the passage. in that location is a clear contrast in the themes between the two passages. Inthe first integrity day or light can be said to be a theme in comparisonto the n ight or darkness in the other.Even though the description of Tom is quite objective, the sunshineand clearness has a high symbolical importance to the passage and makesit more of a contrast to the other passage. This sunshine could bethere because Tom is an antagonist in the novel, thus his descriptionshould not be complicated as, for example Gatsbys. Thereby he isconnected to unambiguousness, whereas Gatsby is connected to darknessand implying that his character will be revealed later on.The sunshine which is connected to Tom could mean that his characteris exposed and open for everyone to look at. This could be connectedto that his characteristics are those of a fascist prototype... ...asting themes are day and night andthe tone and the techniques are based around these themes. Thetechniques are quite different in the two passages in Toms there aremany negative words and his body is personified as cruel. InGatsbys passage there are more words connected to obscurity andGatsby is n ot at all illustrated negatively. The techniques create two severalize moods in the two passages. Toms passage is more simpleand it is not as interesting to read as Gatsbys passage. Tomspassage is almost unpleasant to read because one could almost think heis a monster by his account. The tone in Gatsbys passage is morecalm. The presence of the night makes everything more subjective andabstract. A potential effect of this is that the reader will feel morecomfortable with this passage. Things connected to the night areusually more interesting.