The speaker in claude mckay's "the tropics in new york" cries because he feels

a. hungry
b. angry
c. tired
d. homesick

The right answer is homesick. In this poem, even we appreciate the exact description of the natural resources of the narrator´s home, we can see too how the memory of the situations lived in his natal city, gives a sadness to his tale and finally begins to cry because he fells "hungry for the old, familiar ways".

i believe it is he has been given the drum as a joke.

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