The Closed Door (1910)
The wife does not understand her husband and restlessly chafes under the restraints and duties of domesticity. She longs for "freedom" and the attention of another who caters to her vanity. She forsakes her family and indulges in the gayeties of the great "White Way." Twelve years later her daughter, now grown to young womanhood, is about to be married. Her wedding day has come, everything is in readiness. The wretched wife and mother has dissipated her life; remorseful and alone, she now longs to see her husband and child. With tottering steps she goes to her once happy home, is met and repulsed by her husband. She pleads forgiveness. He rehearses her heartless desertion of their child, her dishonor and disregard of all but her own selfish indulgence and pleasures. Her child comes into the room during this scene and pities the poor woman, entirely ignorant of her identity. The husband points to the door and commends the woman to leave. After the mother leaves, the daughter returns and asks her father who the woman was, and when he tells her the woman is her mother, the girl rushes from the house, followed by her father, and they find her prostrate on the stoop. Lifting her to her feet, they carry her into the house, and the daughter throws herself upon her mother's bosom, and, tenderly looking into her face, the poor woman lovingly caresses her child, while the father looks on, overcome with pity and emotion.
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