![]() ![]() She insists that she wants a respectable position, and she asks him to keep her in mind if he hears anything. He compliments her on how she’s grown up and suggests that she ought to go with her father. ![]() Pastor Manders greets Regina and they exchange pleasantries. Engstrand consents to go, but he tells her to listen if the Pastor gives her any advice. ![]() She also thinks he needs to leave because Pastor Manders will be here any minute. She doesn’t want to leave and she doesn’t think it is appropriate to keep house for him. He suggests his daughter should come with him and work there, assuring her that she will be well off she’s gotten too hoity-toity here at the Alvings’. Now that this project is done, he tells Regina his plans to open a home for seamen, insinuating that it would be a brothel but a very good one. She is not at all happy to see her father, whom she regards as dissolute and a drunk.Įngstrand has been working on the “Captain Alving Memorial,” an orphanage/asylum that is opening the next day. Jakob Engstrand, a ne'er-do-well carpenter, arrives at the garden room wanting to speak with Regina, his daughter, who works as a maid for the Alvings. The play is set in late-19th-century Norway in the wealthy household of the Alvings. ![]()
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