Which of these is a characteristic of American modernism? believing in the spiritual and supernatural world looking inward to find the true self placing the good of society ahead of the individual turning to nature as the primary source of inspiration

The correct answer is: Looking inward to find the true self.

Modernist works are often written in the first person, unlike earlier works, which were written in the third. Furthermore, the technique known as "stream of consciousness" appeared during the Modernist era as a way of turning inward and writing about the "true self."