He acts as if the world is ending.
The answer is the difficulty of determining what is real. Typical modernists had a loss of meaning in the modern world, so there themes included the question of "What is real?" There was a search for meaning in a world without God, and a search for self with a critique of traditional values.
To what passage are we evaluating? There is no picture or further text for us to observe.
But we don't have the passage sooooo
C. Paraphrase does not contain a direct quotation but still gives the general gist of the quote.
