As part of Stalin's Five-Year Plan, the government set up a D) command economy, in which the government owned all industries, setting quotas favoring heavy industry over production of consumer goods.
She was not distracted by things and the demands they pose (to clean them, dust them e.t.c.) and so, she enjoyed the nature around her.
The Pit and the Pendulum is a short story that best fits the horror genre of literature.