When Nick describes Gatsby’s house, he says it is “a factual imitation of some Hotel de Ville in Normandy, with a tower on one side, spanking new under a thing beard of raw ivy, and a marble swimming pool, and more than forty acres of lawn and garden.”
When he describes Tom’s house, he says as “a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens.”
Gatsby was not the kind of person who is born with wealth. What he has now is all from his working. Since the job that he made money is not so decent, he, as the main character, makes the readers feel like he is the upstart. So when Nick describes his mansion, he says that it is an imitation. The reason why it is an imitation instead of some magnificent original house is because he wants to imply the loss of connotation in Gatsby’s house. It also indicates his personality of showing off often. It is also the mentality that upstart would have. But when it comes to Tom, the description gets different. Tom is born rich, so after a long time of practicing and choosing, although he might not be the gentlest, but he absolutely have more experience and opinions on how to make a qualified life. So that is why we see Nick describes Tom’s mansion in so many beautiful words – to indicate that Tom is, to some extents, more exquisite than Gatsby.
When he describes Tom’s house, he says as “a cheerful red-and-white Georgian Colonial mansion, overlooking the bay. The lawn started at the beach and ran toward the front door for a quarter of a mile, jumping over sun-dials and brick walks and burning gardens.”
Gatsby was not the kind of person who is born with wealth. What he has now is all from his working. Since the job that he made money is not so decent, he, as the main character, makes the readers feel like he is the upstart. So when Nick describes his mansion, he says that it is an imitation. The reason why it is an imitation instead of some magnificent original house is because he wants to imply the loss of connotation in Gatsby’s house. It also indicates his personality of showing off often. It is also the mentality that upstart would have. But when it comes to Tom, the description gets different. Tom is born rich, so after a long time of practicing and choosing, although he might not be the gentlest, but he absolutely have more experience and opinions on how to make a qualified life. So that is why we see Nick describes Tom’s mansion in so many beautiful words – to indicate that Tom is, to some extents, more exquisite than Gatsby.