The word that best describes the tone of this excerpt is "despairing." Alice's situation is portrayed with a sense of hopelessness as she struggles to see into the garden and becomes overwhelmed with tears.
Read this excerpt from Chapter II of Alice in Wonderland.
Poor Alice! It was as much as she could do, lying down on one side, to look through into the garden with one eye; but to get through was more hopeless than ever. She sat down and began to cry again.
She went on shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all 'round her and reaching half down the hall.
Which word best describes the tone this excerpt conveys?
mocking
despairing
disgusted
paranoid
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