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Why does carson mccullers use the term malady to describe american loneliness? a. to illustrate that americans are nonconformists and, therefore, suffer from loneliness b. to highlight that those americans who are lonely are ignorant of positive american features c. to compare loneliness to an undesirable illness or disease that is difficult to cure d. to suggest americans feel loneliness as a positive emotion that aids development e. to show that europeans, unlike americans, have cured rampant loneliness

Based on the context of each quote from incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet ann jacobs, find the word that most closely matches thedenotation of the bolded word

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