Question on: JAMB Literature - 2022
The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an "old" family fallen on evil days. The writer's tone is _______
melancholic
matter-of-fact
bitterly humourous
sympathethic
Option D is the correct answer.Â
The writer's tone in the above excerpt is sympathetic. He recalls the difficulties the people are going through and sympathizes with them in his writing.Â
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