Read this sentence from the passage.

In the United States during the early 1900s, most people thought of automobiles as a passing fad.

How does this sentence support the author's purpose in writing the passage?

A.
It points out how Jackson and Crocker's attitudes changed during their trans-U. S. automobile trip.
B.
It explains why no one had attempted a long-distance automobile trip before Jackson and Crocker.
C.
It suggests that most U. S. citizens were violently opposed to Jackson and Crocker's road trip.
D.
It condemns the narrow-minded attitudes prevalent in the United States in the early twentieth century.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.