Read this sentence from Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and choose the word that best describes the narrator's tone in the sentence. Mr. Gascoigne's mind seemed to run on political topics, but whether relating to the past, present, or future, could not easily be determined, since the same ideas and phrases have been in vogue these fifty years. condescending ironic melancholic sarcastic

Question

Trent Holmes

English

10 September, 21:14

Read this sentence from Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment," and choose the word that best describes the narrator's tone in the sentence. Mr. Gascoigne's mind seemed to run on political topics, but whether relating to the past, present, or future, could not easily be determined, since the same ideas and phrases have been in vogue these fifty years. condescending ironic melancholic sarcastic

+2

Answers (1)

Know the Answer?

Kristina Villarreal · Answer 1

In the sentence from Hawthorne's story "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", the narrator's tone is one of irony or (ironic). Its because the narrator states how the reader can't be certain which era of politics the character is discussing, because ironically the same terms and ideas have been in use over the past 50 years.