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What is the tone of this passage?

The School by Donald Barthelme
And the trees all died. They were orange trees. I don't know why they died, they just died. Something wrong with the soil possibly
or maybe the stuff we got from the nursery wasn't the best. We complained about it. So we've got thirty kids there, each kid had his or her own little tree to plant and we've got these thirty dead trees. All these kids looking at these little brown sticks, it was
depressing.
A: Excited
B:Cheery
C: Gloomy
D:Emotional

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C. Gloomy

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