Will mark brainlest! Help please What was the mood/atmosphere of the book "penny in the dust" by Ernest buckler

The theme in this short story is love, Pete doesn't feel very close with his father and his father doesn't know how to show affection to his son. Pete's father puts trust in his son when he gives him the penny and Pete feels like he broke his fathers trust when he loses the penny. At the end of the story Pete's father shows how much he loves his son when he starts to cry and puts his arm around Pete, after Pete explains why he kept digging the penny out of the dust.

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evertheless he ought to be slow to believe and to act, nor should he himself show fear, but proceed in a temperate manner with prudence and humanity, so that too much confidence may not make him incautious and too much distrust render him intolerable.

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at the beginning of the story, elisa just has the small idea of wanting more attention, but as the story progressed, her desire for more attention grew larger. before she talked to the man with the wagon she was just focused on her chrysanthemums but when she talked to him and got some attention she enjoyed it, so she decided to get all dolled up for henry. but when they were on the way to dinner she was so upset because she saw the flowers on the side of the road and realized the man didn't take interest in her like she thought.