Which sentence from "loneliness" best states the theme of the excerpt?

a

old citizens remembered him as a quiet, smiling youth inclined to silence.

b

he studied french and went to an art school, hoping to develop a faculty he had for drawing.

c

he never grew up and of course he couldn't understand people and he couldn't make people

understand him.

d

they might talk, to be sure, and even have opinions of their own, but always he talked last and

best.