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

comp ar and Contrast Passage 1 Description of gobbler, Passage 2 GatsbyseenThe world-class race is a description of Tom. He is portrayed as stronglybuilt It was a soundbox capable of enormous leverage-a cruel body. Healso seems to be a brutal an supercilious man. Words as arrogant,sturdy, gruff and husky micturate a sense of humour around him which is quiteunpleasant. This description is very objective and we get a clearpicture of what Tom looks like. We be 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 causation which he fits into. The description we atomic number 18 given aboutGatsby is much more(prenominal)(prenominal) unclear than that of Tom. The night makes theatmosphere more mysterious around Gatsby. present words as night,trembling, silhouette and dark go under the theme of the passage.There is a clear contrast in the themes among the twain passages. Inthe firs t one day or light can be said to be a theme in comparisonto the night or darkness in the other.Even though the description of Tom is quite objective, the sunlightand clearness has a high symbolic 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 complex as, for example Gatsbys. Thereby he isconnected to unambiguousness, whereas Gatsby is connected to darknessand implying that his caliber will be revealed later on.The sunshine which is connected to Tom could tight 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 pass age there are more words connected to obscurity andGatsby is not at all illustrated negatively. The techniques create twocontrasting moods in the two passages. Toms passage is more unprejudicedand it is not as interesting to read as Gatsbys passage. Tomspassage is intimately unpleasant to read because one could almost think heis a monster by his account. The tone in Gatsbys passage is morecalm. The front line of the night makes everything more subjective andabstract. A potential effect of this is that the proofreader will feel morecomfortable with this passage. Things connected to the night areusually more interesting.