What is the mood in Cat's Eye?

I would argue that it is rather difficult to identify one
dominant mood in a work of literature. The majority of texts have a number of different
moods as the story is told, which can range from despair to humour. However, if we think
about this text, perhaps we can argue that the dominant mood is one of nostalgic
remembrance as Elaine seeks to go back into the past and come to terms with events in
her life surrounding her friendship with Cordelia and how it affected her and still
affects her now in her adult life. Note the way that the story begins with a focus on
time:

But i
began then to think of time as having a shape, something you could see, like a series of
liquid transparencies, one laid on top of another. You don't look back along time but
down through it, like water. Sometimes this comes to the surface, sometimes that,
sometimes nothing. Nothing goes
away.

This is of course a
summary of how the rest of the story develops, as Elaine tells her story from what
emerges from the lake of time in a series of flashbacks. Elaine if you like resurrects
these memories, dragging them out from the lake of her past so that she can live through
them once more and by doing so, somehow make peace with Cordelia after all of these
years. Elaine at no point downplays the trauma of her "friendship" with Cordelia, but
there is at the same time a desire to try and heal the damage that has been
done.