Answer:
The word that best describes the narrator’s tone toward Dr. Heidegger’s visitors in first paragraph of “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment” is condescending. The narrator looks down at each of the four characters he introduces: profligate Mr. Medbourne, hedonistic Colonel Killigrew, disgraced Mr. Gascoigne, and dishonored Widow Wycherly. Each character is portrayed by the narrator in a judgmental light.
