What does the word paranoia mean in the quote, 'its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation w a mechanical paranoia" from paragraph 14?
(Hint: According to Merriam Webster dictionary, the word paranoia means "a feeling of excessive or unreasonable
paranoia, you have intense worry and suspicion that others are following you or trying to harm you.)

most likely the answer would be a.) cupidity

definitions:

cupidity - greed for money or possessions

hydrophobia - extreme or irrational fear of water, especially as a symptom of rabies in humans

pathology - the science of the causes and effects of diseases, especially the branch of medicine that deals with the laboratory examination of samples of body tissue for diagnostic or forensic

patho -   relating to disease

one thousand and one nights, also known as arabian nights is a collection of stories whose basic structure is that of embedded narrative. this technique refers to a main story which works as the common frame - or framing narrative - for the other stories, and then this series of stories which are connected to the main one. this technique can also be referred to as a story within a story. the stories stem from the original tale, some begin and end on their own, some are connected to the previous or following one, by means of questions that are answered in the subsequent tale, or characters which reappear.

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the switch in narration increases the proximity of the narrator to the main character and the reader can perceive information only through the filter of a single character.