Read the following passage: Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand; to the left were the clear panes of glas
s, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day. At intervals, while turning over the leaves of my book, I studied the aspect of that winter afternoon. Afar, it offered a pale
blank of mist and cloud; near a scene of wet lawn and storm beat shrub, with ceaseless rain sweeping away wildly before a long and lamentable
blast.
The mood that the author creates in this passage is
O 1. melancholy
O 2 cheerful
O 3. energetic
4. retrospective
