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.
