What is the author's tone in the story, A Wagner Matinee?

For about the first half of the story, the prose style is straightforward and the tone is fairly subdued. The emotional realities of Georgiana’s life, however, become even more apparent in the second half of the story, during the concert. Georgiana’s strong emotional reactions both during and after the concert elucidate the fact that Georgiana’s life in Nebraska has taken an extreme emotional and physical toll on her she says to Clark: “I don't want to go, Clark, I don't want to go!” (109). In this second half of the story, Clark’s narration also becomes more emotional and ornamented to highlight his own renewed understanding of Georgiana’s plight: “For her, just outside the door of the concert hall, lay the black pond with the cattle-tracked bluffs; the tall, unpainted house, with weather-curled boards…” (110).