This scandal involves the brother-in-law and half-sister-in-law of the main character, who arrive from America at the end of Act One, endangering the doc owner's reputation.
In Act One of this play, the wives of some of the powerful men of the municipality regale the doctor's wife, Mrs. Lynge, with tales about the scandals that rocked the coastal village before she arrived. This scandal involves the brother-in-law and half-sister-in-law of the main character, who arrive from America at the end of Act One, endangering the doc owner's reputation. He gets into further trouble when his shipwright, Aune, starts clamoring for the dock workers' rights. The main character conjures up a plan to let Aune and his dock workers not fix up the boat that will be taking Johann Tönnesen and Lona Hessel back to the New World, but everything falls apart when his son Olaf gets on the boat to follow them. For ten points, name this play in which the town's great businessman Karsten Bernick is shown to be a fraud, written by Henrick Ibsen.
In Act One of this play, the wives of some of the powerful men of the municipality regale the doctor's wife, Mrs. Lynge, with tales about the scandals that rocked the coastal village before she arrived.
The {Pillars of} the {Society} (accept The {Pillars of} the {Community} or {Samfundets st}{ø}{tter})