Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

4. Description of the outward appearance, the portrayal of a character. 
In fiction there exist some relationships between the character and his 
appearance. Thus, features as “hard eyes” or a “cruel mouth like scar” create the 
picture of a man who is capable of mean and wicked actions. The writer often marks 
some suitable feature in the character’s portrait, which is
 
suggestive of his nature. In 
literature, physical portrayal often suggests moral, mental or spiritual characteristics. 
For example, Turgis from 
Angel Pavement 
– a weak-willed day-dreamer who is doped 
by trashy Hollywood films – is introduced to the reader in the following way: “This 
was Turgis, the clerk ... a thinnish, awkward young man, with ... poor shoulders, ... a 
small, still babyish mouth, usually open, ... drooping rather than retreating chin. ... the 
faint grey film that seemed to cover and subdue him ...”. All that suggests that he is 
feeble, defenseless, irresolute, weak-willed, unintelligent. Whereas Miss Matfield’s 
description is as follows: “What they saw was a girl of twenty-seven or twenty-eight, 
or even twenty-nine, with decided eyebrows, a smoldering eye,... a mouth that was a 
discontented crimson curve, and a firm round chin that was ready to double itself at 
any moment”. All that suggests a resolute, decisive personage, though dissatisfied with 
her life. 
5. Description of the world of things that surround the character. 
The character’s room, clothing and other belongings may also serve as a means 
of characterization. For example, “the blue serge suit that bagged and sagged and 
shone, ... the pulpy look about his shoes ...which soaked up the rain” characterize 
Turgis as a miserable creature, who lives in need, with no one to care for him. It adds 
to his portrait and helps the reader to understand the character. Or again, the 
description of the books that Miss Matfield was so fond of – “the exotic and 
adventurous tales” with “coral reefs, jungles and a strong, adventurous brigandish 

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hero” is a key to understanding her idea of happiness. It explains why Mr. Golspie 
claimed her attention, it reveals that she was also doped by the cheap literature which 
she so often turned to, and that she was not at all sophisticated as she tried to appear.
Domestic inferiors of the setting are sometimes treated as metonymic, or 
metaphoric, expressions of character. “A man’s house is an extension of himself. 
Describe it and you have described him ... These houses express their owners; they 
affect as atmosphere those who must live in them ...»