This is a case of "negative reinforcement". The term was created by B.F. Skinner, and it is about not doing something in order to avoid suffering or pain (physical or psychological). A good example of negative reinforcement can be seen in the movie "A Clockwork Orange", directed by Stanley Kubrick. The main character goes to a correctional facility where he's forced to watch violent movies while experiencing an unimaginable sensation of nausea. The goal of the institution was to turn him into a non-violent individual by conditioning his brain to associate violence with feeling sick to his stomach. In fact, after such experiment he wasn't even able to enjoy Beethoven's music anymore, since it was played throughout the whole "therapeutic" movie sessions. In Herbie's case, he could no longer eat his daily chocolate chip cookies, since he didn't want to get nauseated again. It doesn't mean he would necessarily feel that way if he actually had the cookies, but he refused to eat them anyway, since he'd already been negatively reinforced not to eat them.
Answer: He is being sarcastic, he is basically undermining the fact that death is a fate that means the end. So essentially he is being ironic with his sarcasm
I want to say the answer is D
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I believe the correct answer is D. spatial order.
Even though the items are carefully chosen, they are the only items the character could see from where she was standing at the moment. From the hallway, she could see the china cabinet, a bowl of flowers, the clock, the candles... Then she moves into the room, and her perspective shifts, so that she can now see the bench and the trap door.