Identifying Tone
From One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
It's gonna burn me just that way, finally telling about all this, about the hospital, and her, and the guys--and about McMurphy. I been silent so long now it's gonna roar out of me like floodwaters and you think the guy telling this is raging and raving my God; you think this is too horrible to have really happened, this is too awful to be the truth! But, please. It's still the truth even if it didn't happen.
disappointed (defeated, unhappy)
condescending (patronizing)
amused (pleased, entertained)
ambiguous (has more than one meaning)