The writer’s tone from the illustration below is _______?

The Comstocks belonged to the most dismal of all classes, the middle-middle class, the landless gentry. In their miserable poverty, they had not even the snobbish consolation of regarding themselves as an “old” family fallen on evil days. 

A. melancholic
B. matter-of-fact
C. bitterly humourous
D. sympathetic

Correct Answer:

Option D – sympathetic