Act 2, Scene 1
Eight days later John Proctor enters his house after a long day working on his farm. He hears his wife, Elizabeth Proctor, singing to their children upstairs. Things are very calm and peaceful. Elizabeth enters and gets John his dinner. He eats and she sits with him. She asks him where he has been all night (getting concerned, considering his previous love affair with Abigail Williams) and he gets angry at her distrust of him.
Elizabeth tells John that their servant, Mary Warren, has been in Salem at the courthouse, and Mary claims that she is an "official of the court." John gets angry. Elizabeth also tells him that fourteen people have already been jailed and the town is going crazy. The Deputy Governor promises to hang them if they do not confess.
Topic Tracking: Chaos 5
Elizabeth says that Abby goes into the court and gives the names of people in the town who are witches. She wants John to go into Salem to tell Ezekiel Cheever that Abby is a fraud, and making all of this up. John decides that he will think about it and Elizabeth thinks that he will not go because he still cares about Abby. He gets very angry and asks Elizabeth not to judge him.
"'You will not judge me more, Elizabeth. I have good reason to think before I charge fraud on Abigail, and I will think on it. Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore. I have forgot Abigail, and -'" Act 2, Scene 1, pg. 52
Topic Tracking: Involvement 4
They argue for a while about how John once had an affair with Abby. Elizabeth says she is over with it and will not judge John anymore, but he thinks she still continues to judge him.
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