Question

Highlight details that show the mood.
But her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. If he could only find it before the thing outside got in. A perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door. He heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
—"The Monkey's Paw,"
W. W. Jacobs
What is the mood of this passage?
worried
cheerful
depressed
accepting

Answer 1

His mood is worried

Answer 2

The mood of this passage where a man is searching for a paw is "Worried".

What is Mood?

This refers to the use of words by an author which helps to set the general atmosphere of a novel or story.

With this in mind and from the given passage, there is the narration about the husband who was worried and pacing across a room in search of the paw which shows that the mood is worried.

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