How does Dr. Jekyll explain the fact that Mr. Hyde was much "smaller, slighter and younger" than himself?From the last chapter: Henry Jekyll´s...

I am assuming you want to know why is is that Hyde is so
much smaller, slighter, and younger than Henry
Jeckyll?

There are some interpretations. Victorian times
were so stuck up and stuffy that many things were considered evil, or polluted, or
unfashionable. Repression both mental and physical was rampant and it only hid away the
reality of secret vice and inner desires.

Hyde is an
allegorical character representing those repressed feelings, and he is an extension of
Jeckyll. For this reason the author, Robert Louis Stevenson has to portray him "small,
and slight" like someone's shadow would reflect on the ground, and "much younger" is a
description that befits immaturity and carelessness. After all, Hyde and Jeckyll both
live at each other's shadows.

Mr. Enfield describes in the
beginning of the novella as:

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"He is not easy to describe. There is something
wrong with his appearance; something displeasing, something downright detestable. I
never saw a man I so disliked, and yet I scarce know why. He must be deformed somewhere;
he gives a strong feeling of deformity, although I couldn't specify the point. He's an
extraordinary-looking man, and yet I really can name nothing out of the way. No, sir; I
can make no hand of it; I can't describe him. And it's not want of memory; for I declare
I can see him this moment."
(p.15)

So basically, he is a
creepy little man who causes lots of mayhem the way any other dark creature would in
folk literature.