Multiple choice 10 pointer, brainiest for correct

read this excerpt from james baldwin's "notes of a native son":

i had not known my father very well. we had got on badly, partly because we shared, in our different fashions, the vice of stubborn pride. when he was dead i realized that i had hardly ever spoken to him. when he had been dead a long time i began to wish i had. it seems to be typical of life in america, where opportunities, real and fancied, are thicker than anywhere else on the globe, that the second generation has no time to talk to the first.
which sentence best explains how the structure of the excerpt supports the author's purpose?
a. it uses the third-person point of view to convey baldwin's inner feelings regarding his father.
b. it describes how baldwin and his father were victims of stubbornness to reveal that pride is a sin.
c. it describes the stubborn pride baldwin and his father shared to reveal a growing estrangement between generations.
d. it makes a statement about the generation gap that existed in america at the time.

i'm pretty sure it's c., but i need with other questions too, stick around if you can, i got a sh! %! & ^! load of points to give.