Question

Read the excerpt below and answer the question.

And that was last Thursday. Tonight is Tuesday. Tonight is Tuesday and my homework's done, and I darned some stockings that didn't really need it, and worked a cross-word puzzle, and I listened to the radio and now I'm just sitting. I can't think of anything, anything but snowflakes and ice skates and yellow moons and Thursday night. The telephone is sitting on the corner table with its old black face turned to the wall so I can't see its leer. I don't even jump when it rings any more. My heart still prays but my mind just laughs. Outside the night is still, so still I think I'll go crazy and the white snow's all dirtied and smoked into grayness and the wind is blowing the arc light so it throws weird, waving shadows from the trees onto the lawn—like thin, starved arms begging for I don't know what. And so I'm sitting here and I'm not feeling anything. I'm not even sad because all of a sudden I know. I can sit here now forever and laugh and laugh while the tears run salty in the corners of my mouth. For all of a sudden I know, I know what the stars knew all the time—he'll never, never call—never.

What tone does this excerpt from Daly's "Sixteen" convey?

bored
disappointed
inquisitive
spirited

Answer 1

Disappointed

Step-by-step explanation:

Sixteen is a short story written by Maureen Daly, an Irish-born American writer best known for the works she wrote while she was still in her teens. Sixteen is one of these works. She wrote it when she was sixteen years old.

The story tells about a girl who meets a boy at the skating rink and begins to like him. Before they part their ways, he tells her that he will call her. The excerpt you were given follows that part of the story. They met on Thursday, and on Tuesday, he still hasn't called. The narrator realizes that he will never call. She feels empty, disappointed. One part of her still hopes that he will call, but another has already accepted that he won't.

This is why the tone of the given passage can be described as disappointed.