The lines "Original! We're all as like each other as those dolls cut out of the same folded paper. We're like patterns stencilled on a wall. Can't you and I strike out for ourselves, May?" reflect which of the recurring themes of 20th and 21st century American literature?
A) the desire for social equality for all members of society
B) the desire for freedom from the growing specter of world war
C) the desire to express individuality and not be ruled by society
D) the desire to reclaim the more ordered cultural past that had disappeared