Question

(from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde)

Read the passage carefully and then answer the question.

From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

How does the writer seem to feel about the person he has described?
He thinks he is mean and filled with negativity.
He thinks he is feeling relaxed and at peace.
He thinks he is strange and someone to be feared.
He thinks he is feeling uncomfortable in this place.

Answer 1

He is feeling relaxed and at peace.
Explanation: in the passage there is nothing negative. To help back up my answer in the passage it says, “gleam go honey-sweet and honey-colored blossoms.” This has nothing negative. And as you read the writer puts in a peaceful setting. While reading this al you can think of is how peaceful it is.

Answer 2

he thinks he's feeling relaxed and at peace

Step-by-step explanation:

all of the words are complimentary, enjoyable, not anything negative in the entire passage