The answer is: Acceptance from loved ones helps people overcome fear.
In the excerpt from "Loneliness... an American Malady," the author Carson McCullers suggests that love makes people provide more positive answers, expand connection to others, dispose them of fear and attain happiness and audacity.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the passage expresses exactly the opposite ideas - it only describes the beneficial aspects of love rather than love in contrast to individualism.
True because getting clarification from the actual person will allow you to have an accurate view and perception of his or her behavior.
To Guide or instruct because in context its saying guiding or instructing love
Romantic notions shape one's youth
