Following the death of her husband and son, the mother becomes more isolated because we can identify her when the neighbor mentions that the mother only rarely leaves her home to go to live visit friends or run errands. Furthermore, the emotional alienation in the mother's case, due to the murders of her husband and son, affects her greatly. Meanwhile, the characters in the play often discuss the isolation of the Bride's farm from the rest of the town and how far away everything is for her. Emotional alienation in the case of the Bride, due to the pressure to get married because everyone was enthusiastic about her wedding and told her the same thing. Furthermore, like the Handmaid and the Groom they pressure her with orange blossoms because they represent purity, chastity, innocence on the
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