Mr. Frank starts crying looking at the white glove, because it takes him back to the unpleasant memories of the war.
Step-by-step explanation:
Mr. Frank is the father of Anne Frank in the heartbreaking novel 'The Diary of Anne Frank.' The diary depicts how Anne with her family was in hiding for almost two years during the Nazi occupation.
Lines 26-37 depicts Frank's feeling of helplessness and he begin to cry when he picks up a woman's white glove, because he knows that this glove was probably of his wife or his daughter Anne who have all died in war.
Mr. Frank then demands Miep to burn all those sentimental stuff, because those stuff reminds him of the bad memories of the war.