Passage #4 Magical Realism
Read this passage from a short story. Then, answer the question(s).
The city express bus pulled up to the curb. “About time," somebody muttered. In
the brilliant but frigid winter sunlight, we clutched our cups of coffee, checked our
cell phones for the hundredth time, and shuffled toward the folding doors.
As they opened, a single sheet of paper sailed forth and began looping in elegant
circles around the group of waiting passengers, each of us impatient to board. It
was nothing special, that flyer, just a black-and-white notice with a blurry, black
collection of lines and dots that approximated the shape of a face.
The face—was it male or female? It's difficult to say, as my mind was
preoccupied. I kept mulling over what had gone wrong at yesterday's conference
call and pondering how to squeeze in the badly needed haircut that I couldn't
keep rescheduling. For a senior sales executive, the state of my hair had become
alarming.
By the time I boarded the bus, the flyer was moving a little more shakily, fluttering
from passenger to passenger, hovering unsteadily beside the ear of each one.
"Have you seen my dream?" the indistinguishable face on the flyer kept asking.
"It's missing. Have you seen my dream?" But it's hard even for a lost dream to
compete with the inexorable attractions of cell phone screens and day-to-day
worries.
Which of the following answer choices best describe the narrators tone?
A. Amused
B. Alarmed
C. Unaffected
D. Terrified