How we cite our quotes: ("Story Name," Paragraph)
Quote #10
Until this day, how well the house had kept its peace. How carefully it had inquired, "Who goes there? What's the password?" and, getting no answer from lonely foxes and whining cats, it had shut up its windows and drawn shades in an old-maidenly preoccupation with self-protection which bordered on a mechanical paranoia. ("There Will Come Soft Rains," 14)
"There Will Come Soft Rains" presents a people-less house. All the other houses have turned to rubble, so this one is totally isolated. But the way the house sees it, isolation keeps it safe. And that, Bradbury says, is nothing more than paranoia.