Answer:
a person who hates or mistrusts other people
Explanation:
I think its this because she glares at people, and is introverted. Doesn't like to come out of her apartment
1. frenetic
2. egregious
3. piercing
4. shabby
I believe that the sentence from this excerpt that shows such a metaphor is the following one - <u>This tower was a giant, standing with its back to the plight of the ants.</u>
We are the ants - we are completely insignificant before nature, and before fate itself, as, according to the naturalists, we cannot influence our own lives, but rather just wait to see what happens. We cannot change our fate - what's been decided for us is going to happen and there is nothing we can do about it.