The purpose of response cries, according to Erving Goffman, is: A) to express the person's unconscious motivations to show others one's continued competence in daily routines C) to get others to feel sorry for one's failures to draw attention to oneself D) all of the above

The answer is to show others one's continued competence in daily routines

Explanation:

Goffman describes response cry as: "a ritualized act in the ethological sense of that term. Unable to shape the world the way we want to, we displace our manipulation of it to the verbal channel, displaying evidence of our alignment to the on-going events; the display takes the condensed, truncated form of a discretely-articulated, non-lexicalized expression."