Adair and her parents sit together around their kitchen table. The scene is mute and muffled.
No one says a word, so it is quiet– and yet it is charged!
At the kitchen table is a pathos– expressed by the mute and muffled and charged atmosphere, vibe.
Mute and muffled– even to me, these connote repression, probably of the Protestant variety, and in this case, the Lutheran subspecies.
Spam of Human Affection 
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