The text makes which point about the people at the gathering?

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The following text is from Virginia Woolf's 1919 novel Night and Day. The narrator describes a gathering of artists and intellectuals.

One person after another rose, and, as with an ill-balanced axe, attempted to hew out his conception of art a little more clearly, and sat down with the feeling that, for some reason which he could not grasp, his strokes had gone awry. As they sat down they turned almost invariably to the person sitting next them, and rectified and continued what they had just said in public.

Each enjoys speaking publicly about abstract issues but dislikes speaking privately about them.

Each fails at presenting a wholly coherent vision of art but does not understand why.

Each is contemptuous of the other attendees but strives to impress them.

Each becomes absorbed in a question about art, and no one knows how to answer the question.