Rosie’s] father emerged, also alone, something in his arms (it was the picture, she realized), and, going over to the bathhouse woodpile, he threw the picture on the ground and picked up the axe. smashing the picture, glass and all (she heard the explosion faintly), he reached over for the kerosene that was used to encourage the bath fire and poured it over the wreckage. i am dreaming, rosie said to herself, i am dreaming, but her father, having made sure that his act of cremation was irrevocable, was even then returning to the fields. –"seventeen syllables," hisaye yamamoto which word best describes the mood of this excerpt?
a. astonished
b. disappointed
c. panicked
d. regretful