Question

Read the excerpt from “The Gift of the Magi” below and answer the question. While the mistress of the home is gradually subsiding from the first stage to the second, take a look at the home. A furnished flat at $8 per week. It did not exactly beggar description, but it certainly had that word on the lookout for the mendicancy squad. Which story element does the excerpt above describe?

Answer 1

It is describing setting.

Answer 2

the answer is b home because it is the mood of the setting