I think the first scene sets the tone for the rest of the essay. The way Mamet describes the table in the nook with the shattered glass-it lets you know what his family suffered through. Mostly what he and his sister suffered through.
It describes the way the stepfather breaks the table and how they know that somehow it is their fault. So in a way everything that happens in the story is their fault. The blood that is associated with the table repeats throughout the story. Every time the table is mentioned, it is associated with something negative.
Mamet used these images to instill feeling into the reader. You feel closer to the story and understand so much of what they go through.
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