Read the stage direction from act 1 of The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. Now he takes a step toward the crowd and they back away from him. He walks down the steps after them and they continue to back away. Now he's suddenly and completely left alone and he looks like a man caught in the middle of a menacing circle as we take a

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Based on the stage direction, the reader should visualize this scene as