<p>I think someone has already posted the exact same question, but I still couldn't understand the logic behind the answer choice. The answer is C, by the way.</p>
<p>The big doors of the hotel are padlocked. So far nobody has smashed their glass panels. Nobody could stand to do it because the panels mirror your own face as well as the view behind your back: acres of chive grass edging the sparkly beach, a movie-screen sky, and an ocean that wants you more than anything. No matter the outside loneliness, if you look inside, the hotel seems to promise you ecstasy and the company of all your best friends. And music. The shift of a shutter hinge sounds like the cough of a trumpet; piano keys waver a quarter note above the wind so you might miss the hurt jamming those halls and closed-up rooms.</p>
<p>Lines piano keys . . . rooms convey a feeling of </p>
<p>(A) lightheartedness
(B) bewilderment
(C) melancholy
(D) nostalgia
(E) detachment</p>
<p>So what does the last sentence mean? To me, the passage overall just sounds incoherent. If the author so well expatiates the scenery reflected in the hotel window in the first few lines, why would he suddenly be "melancholy"? And one other thing is, the first few lines seem to canonize the beauty of the scenery, but why is it suddenly "loneliness"?</p>
<p>P.S.- what does "ecstasy" and "the company of all your best friends" imply? Do these phrases contribute to the mood at all?</p>