The tone of this excerpt from Daly's "Sixteen" is excited
Explanation:
This excerpt from "sixteen" by Maureen Daly present the interaction of the characters from the point of view of the narrator, who shows all of her enthusiasm in these lines as she skates with the best dancer in the town, the narrative of the story tells how special every detail of this little event is for her.
The tone of this excerpt from Maureen Daly's famous story "Sixteen" is primarily intimate, but also frank, sentimental, chatty, colloquial, and a little bit impassioned. The narrator is describing, informally and enthusiastically, a casual, but seemingly very cherished, encounter with a boy, and she appears to be very comfortable sharing her intimate feelings with her interlocutor, judging by some of her expressions - "don't be silly, I told you before, I get around," "Don't you see? This was different," or "It was all so lovely."
Answer: Hamilton's failure to uphold his private marriage vow inevitably made any public vow he made suspect. In a Biblical allusion to King David, she warned that with Hamilton in charge of the army, “Every Uriah must tremble for his Bathsheba.”
