![]() The Bridegroom urges her to come live with him and his wife, but she insists on staying at the farm, so she can be close to the graves of her husband and son. Mother comments sadly that she will be all alone after the Bridegroom marries his fiancée and moves away from home. The topic shifts to the Bridegroom’s fiancée, whom Mother distrusts even though she knows that his fiancée is “a good girl. He suggests that it might ease her nerves to come with him, but she declines, explaining that there is no use for an old woman in the vineyard. Mother announces that she wishes the Bridegroom were a girl, so that he would stay home with her instead of roaming the countryside. Mother is upset because she worries that the Bridegroom will be next. It slowly becomes clear that the Bridegroom’s father and his brother both died violently, and their murderers are now in prison. She continues to wail about the harm that knives and pistols can do to good people. ![]() ![]() The Bridegroom is irritated but tries to calm Mother down, to no avail. He does however ask for a knife to cut grapes from the vine, which sends Mother into a fit of hysterics: “Damn the devil who created knives,” (1) she cries. She urges him to bring along a lunch, but he brushes her off, promising to eat some grapes when he gets there. ![]() The Bridegroom announces to his Mother that he is going out to the vineyard. ![]()
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