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Cane is a 1923 novel by Jean Toomer. In one portion of the novel, Toomer establishes a contrast between the narrator’s attitude toward life and the attitude of the narrator’s love interest, Avey, writing,       
Which quotation from Cane most effectively illustrates the claim?
A
“[Avey would] smile appreciation, but it was an impersonal smile, never for me.”
B
“As time went on, [Avey’s] indifference to things began to pique me; I was ambitious. I left [our small hometown] earlier than she did.”
C
“I like to feel that something deep in me responded to the trees, the young trees that whinnied like colts impatient to be let free.”
D
“Avey was as silent as those great trees whose tops we looked down upon. She has always been like that. At least, to me.”