Question

Why is Amelia Slater so edgy and nervous in the beginning of the play?

Answer 1

after the death of abel she wanted to took the bureau. she told his husband too. they both were trying to get the bureau downstairs so she was nervous that if her sister came before she would took that bureau with her.

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Answer 2

Answer :

This question is based on the play 'The Dear Departed' by Stanley Houghton.

Amelia Slater is very edgy and nervous in the beginning of the play because her father had died. She wanted to keep his bureau for herself as she was quite fond of it. She was in the middle of shifting it downstairs so that she could tell her sister Elizabeth that he had given it to them before dying.

She was also worried that the Jordan family might arrive before she had completed the task of shifting it and try to claim the bureau for themselves.