contrast tom and myrtle's love nest to the Buchanan house

Caraway, the narrator,
describes his cousin, 's,house in .He says that it is

[...] 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 gardensfinally when it reached the house drifting up the
side in bright vines as though from the momentum of its run.The front was broken by a line of
French windows, glowing now with reflected gold, and wide open to the warm windy afternoon
[...].

This paragraph is full of , descriptions of things
that we would perceive with one of our five senses.In this case, visual imagery is used in the
description of the red and white mansion, the vines that are
bright with flowers, the line of windows that glows with a golden
light.The house and lawn are pristine, classic, adorned but not gaudy with
decoration.We get a sense of its immense size as well, especially because the front lawn alone
is a quarter of a mile long.Theof "gold," as something incredibly expensive, is
another significant indication of the house's grandeur and worth.

Nick's
description ofand Myrtle's apartment in the city is quite different.He says that it has

[...] a small living room, a small dining room, a small
bedroom and a bath.The living room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture
entirely too large for it so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies
swinging in the gardens of Versailles.

Unlike the
Buchanans' home, this one is small, as Nick repeats three times, and
crowded.One gets the sense that nothing is in proportion: while the space is small, the
furniture is so large that one trips over it while trying to get from one
end of the room to the other.Further, the furniture is covered with scenes of the gardens at
Versailles, as though Myrtle has tried to choose something classy, whereas the Buchanans' feel
no such compulsion.They don't need to try to make their home elegant; they
are elegant.Myrtle tries to be elegant but doesn't really know how, and the
effect is more ridiculous and gaudy.