The best description of the mood of the excerpt is gloomy and ominous. The setting and descriptions convey a sense of melancholy and defeat, with the mention of "the hour of the defeated" and the imagery of "shabby clothes" and "bowed shoulders," which all contribute to a bleak and somber atmosphere.
Norman Gortsby sat on a bench in the Park, with his back to a strip of bush-planted sward, fenced by the park railings, and the Row fronting him across a wide stretch of carriage drive. Hyde Park Corner, with its rattle and hoot of traffic, lay immediately to his right. It was some thirty minutes past six on an early March evening, and dusk had fallen heavily over the scene, dusk mitigated by some faint moonlight and many street lamps. There was a wide emptiness over road and sidewalk, and yet there were many unconsidered figures moving silently through the half-light, or dotted unobtrusively on bench and chair, scarcely to be distinguished from the shadowed gloom in which they sat.
The scene pleased Gortsby and harmonised with his present mood. Dusk, to his mind, was the hour of the defeated. Men and women, who had fought and lost, who hid their fallen fortunes and dead hopes as far as possible from the scrutiny of the curious, came forth in this hour of gloaming, when their shabby clothes and bowed shoulders and unhappy eyes might pass unnoticed, or, at any rate, unrecognised.
Use the excerpt from H. H. Munro’s story “Dusk” to answer the question.
Which of the following best describes the mood of the excerpt?
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gloomy and ominous
gloomy and ominous
confining and restricted
confining and restricted
disappointed and dismayed
disappointed and dismayed
light and optimistic
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