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Analyze how the Author uses a mix of dialogue and stage direction to create a sense of distance between John and Elizabeth.

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courage to say what she thinks at first, but eventually gets up the

courage to tell him to go to Salem and tell the court about Abigail.

In many of the questions she asks John, you can sense that she is

still suspicious of him.

Tensions between Elizabeth and John Proctor are prominent at first in

the act. Miller describes in the stage directions that John "is not

quite pleased. [With the food that his wife has prepared] He reaches

to the cupboard, takes a pinch of salt and drops it into the pot". We

can see from this stage direction that he doesn't want to make

anything even more awkward between him and his wife, and if she sees

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