Hartopwas driving: a thin, angular man, starved-faced. He seemed to occupy almost all the seat, sprawling awkwardly; so that his wife and their daughter Alice sat squeezed up, the girl with her arms flat as though ironed against her side, her thin legs pressed tight together into the size of one. The Hartops' faces seemed moulded in clay and in the light from the van-lamps were a flat swede-colour. Like the man, the two women were thin, with a screwed-up thinness that made them look both hard and frightened How does the writer use language here to describe the Hartop family? You could include the writer's choice of: •words and phrases •language features and techniques •sentence forms.

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Explanation:

Using description from the writer's excerpt ;

A thin, angular man suggests the shape and size of Hartop to mean lean and slightly tall personality

Awkward sprawling indicates that he least considered those beside him, exerting power and causing inconvenience despite us lean size.

The Hartop's faces seem moulded in clay : This describes Hartop as being unresponsive and unfriendly.

Like the man, the two women were thin, with a screwed-up thinness that made them look both hard and frightened shows that the Hartop's are generally thin and that the relationship between them was not rosy and that they lived in fear.

the answer f probably

the anecdote makes readers feel sorry for the man’s lack of heritage, then reminds readers that the man has an equally valuable heritage.