1.) “…His eyes of the usual blue….his glance fall on one as trenchant and heavy as an axe…” (Conrad 28)
When an axe falls on an object it is natural that it will do damage, an ax is relatively heavy and has an incredibly sharp, thick blade at the end of it. It is capable of slicing through thick blocks of wood and if someone was hit with the dull end could induce a mass amount of damage. Conrad is stating that the managers eyes were so incredibly cold and had such a piercing depth that one glance of eye contact could make a man cower; ‘if looks could kill’.
When an axe falls on an object it is natural that it will do damage, an ax is relatively heavy and has an incredibly sharp, thick blade at the end of it. It is capable of slicing through thick blocks of wood and if someone was hit with the dull end could induce a mass amount of damage. Conrad is stating that the managers eyes were so incredibly cold and had such a piercing depth that one glance of eye contact could make a man cower; ‘if looks could kill’.
not your strongest choice -- it seems like a relatively surface point compared to the strength of your other comments -- now, could there be a deeper, greater significance to using the "axe" as the point of comparison?
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