Monkey´s Paw

What type of mood is established in the beginning of the story? What helps determine that sense of feeling?

A. The warm weather outside helps to create the sense that Mother Nature is anxiously waiting a visitor on such a beautiful ight.

B. small parlor of Laburnum villa (“the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly”) The father (Mr. White) and the son (Herbert) are playing, while the mother (Mrs. White) sits knitting by the fire. Mr. White loses the chess game to his son.

C. The cold, wet weather and the wind outside helps to create the sense that Mother Nature is presenting a warning to the family inside, warm at the fire. The Whites live "so far out" in an"out-of-the-way place," yet they are anxiously waiting a visitor on such a dreary night.