Mood vs tone

McCarthy's tone in the passage is apathetic whereas the mood of the text is haunting. McCarthy's description, while vivid ,lacks emotion. McCarthy's describes the two as " pilgrims in a fable swallowed up and lost among the inward parts of some granitic beast"(1). He is blunt and detached from these individual's situation. Conversely, the mood of the text is almost the opposite as the description inspires fear and tension. The creature "with eyes dead white and sightless as the eggs of spiders" swings its head low over the water as if it to take the scent of what it could not see"(1) The creature physical description is terrifying and seems to be aware of the intruders who have entered his space.