The correct answer is D) pessimistic.
The option that best describes many of the post war’s eras writers and their works is pessimistic.
A new generation of writers emerged after World War II. Some of them were immigrants that had another point of view, different from the American writer. African Americans and women’s participation became more prominent and other authors declared its sexual orientation that influenced in their works such as Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams, and James Baldwin. Most of them wrote about dark and pessimistic topics that resulted from the times lived in those post-war years.