Answer: Mr Frank was feeling upset about all the tragedies and the white glove makes him sad.
Explanation: Mr Frank is a character in the play "The Diary of Anne Frank" which is a stage adaptation of the book "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank. Mr Otto Frank is the father of the diarist Anne Frank. It premiered on Broadway at the Cort Theatre in 1955.
Anne Frank was a German-Dutch diarist of Jewish origin and she is one of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust. She gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl (which had been saved by her father's secretary and he helped publish after he was released from the concentration camps. In the diary, she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. She died in Bergen belsen concentration camp in 1945 and her father, Otto Frank was the only survivor in her family.