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.