Question

Read the following passage from "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway.
" The doctor told me that the major's wife, who was very young and whom he had not married until he was definitely invalided out of the war, had died of pneumonia. She had been sick only a few days. No one expected her to die."

What is the mood of this passage, with examples from the passage?

Answer 1

The mood is somber and sad.

The them of the passage is the sudden passing of a woman and a young one at that who had her whole life ahead of her. The sadness is amplified with the knowledge that that she left a husband who barely survived the war and that her death was sudden and unexpected.