Manhattan Tropics by Guillermo Cotto-Thorner In summer, they give the impression of macabre furnaces where eyelashes burn, bodies melt down and all feeling contorts and loses its sense. Excerpt from "Manhattan Tropics" by Guillermo Cotto-Thorner is being reprinted with permission from the publisher (©Arte Público Press - University of Houston) Question Use the sentence to answer the question. Which best describes the mood that is created by the language in this excerpt? (1 point) Responses uncomfortable and gloomy uncomfortable and gloomy hazy and uncertain hazy and uncertain suspenseful and foreboding suspenseful and foreboding anxious and irritable

The mood that is created by the language in this excerpt is uncomfortable and gloomy.