Word: engstrand
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...Regina Engstrand (Donna Manley) holds the same position--housekeeper for Mrs. Alving--that her own mother did before her death. The education and refinement she has culled from living in this cosmopolitan home conflicts with the behavior of her offensive step-father, Jacob (Harry Cooper). He frequently reminds his daughter about the duty a child owes a father, although this is some what muffled beneath his deliberately garbled gruffness...
Despite his unclear speech, Cooper brilliantly portrays Mr. Engstrand as a crotchety, aged carpenter with every-moving eyebrows, a lame leg, and discomfited facial expressions. Although by he is her father, Engstrand's ill-mannered ways and frequent machinations lead Regina to despise...
Just as Mr. Engstrand plagues his daughter, Mrs. Alving seems incapable of ridding herself of the ghosts that haunt her. Like entropy, their lives, despite conscientious planning, degenerate into turmoil...