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** VISIT - STUDY QUESTIONS 3 **

In the beginning they don’t know the exact reason for the horrible overall state of Guellen. What we later found out is that Claire Zachanassian bought a lot of the town, their large square and a factory and she shut the down. This action made the town go into a downward spiral and made them what they are in the novel. It is this single act that can be held responsible for the lack of money in the town as the things she shut down no only held value to the town, they produced things to be exported and also gave members of the town jobs in which to make an income, after a while like a domino effect everything would have gone down, less money from less jobs meant people would spend less money at local businesses thus making more people loose money and it goes on from there. The main way in which this propels the end of the play is that it makes the townspeople that more desperate for the money which Claire Zachanassian is offering. The amount of money that she was offering was something no matter how much the townspeople wanted to they couldn’t refuse, this money would make the world of difference to these people, they could pay there debts, start businesses spend money and thus put Guellen back on the way to its former glory. The fact that they had no money but they did no something of a time when they did have money and what it was like to have money would have made having none all the more painful and make them suffer so much greater. So evidently when the opportunity arose they couldn’t let this go which inevitably led to the conclusion of the play. JACK MAYNARD
 * 3. What is the reason for Guellen's impoverished state? How does this reason propel the conclusion of the play? **