The mood is unsettling and suspenseful. The words "unfamiliar, concerned, unusually, and heavy" help set the mood to this.
When we're taking about measures of status, we're talking about either a socioeconomic perspective or something else. When we're talking about a socioeconomic perspective of status, there are two important measures. One would be social standing of a person and the other would be his economic standing.
Only something the writer has experienced.
