Answer:
Henry James was the first writer to mention the difference in a greater extent. According to his writings, American style writing is rich with moral innosence, spontaneity, sincerity, honesty, naturality respectively versus European moral experience, rituality, dishonesty and artificiality. The qualities cannot be seen exactly in every European or American novel, however the qualities boil down to the final virtue in the form of honesty vs evil.
Analyzing this information is quite a "paine" indeed. Thomas Paine is using different types of literary devices it seems. But I cannot help you much further I am sorry.
Without reading what ever story this was from, I would say the logical answer or the answer that would the most sense is D
