"We must be helpful when we can, my dear; that is the...
responsibility, the double demand of friendship...is
it not?"
-Edna
Edna and Harry's arrival throws the play into a state of chaos. Julia becomes extremely upset because her room has been taken over by Edna and Harry while the rest of the family tries to figure out what exactly the couple was so scared of. Edna and Harry give no definitive answers of what has scared them out of their home, leaving the reader to struggle to understand what could've scared two adults so much. It becomes apparent that what has scared the couple is not something physical. It is a symbol of all that the play tries to tackle—isolation, the degradation of relationships, and the illusion of perfection.
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