In this scene, the audience is introduced to a new character, a young woman who has just arrived in the United States. She is the daughter of a wealthy Polish family, and she has come to live with her family in order to save her family from the tyranny of the Czarist Empire. The young woman is shocked to learn that her family is being persecuted by the Czarists, who call them "little people" and "lowlifes" . She tells the young woman that the people in her neighborhood are very polite, and that she should have been more polite to her family when she came to visit them. The woman tells the