Based on the excerpt below, the overall mood of the passage is that the passage has a melancholy mood throughout.
Explanation:
The story "Araby" by James Joyce has a general mood of melancholy, showing it as a very somber narrative, not only in the events that happen in the protagonist's life but also in the selection of words to express it, this paragraph describes the neighborhood as a plane place to live with a lot of routinary situations.
