How would you interpret “there were endless scenes and dramas” in the context?
“Well, I’m not denying that Lula had problems. She put Mum through hell, as a matter of fact. It started around the same time our father died—you probably know all this, God knows there was enough about it in the press…but she was expelled from school for dabbling in drugs; she ran off to London, Mum found her living rough with addicts; the drugs exacerbated the mental problems; she absconded from a treatment center—there were endless scenes and dramas….

How would you interpret “there were endless scenes and dramas” in the context?
Thanks!

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How would you interpret “there were endless scenes and dramas” in the context?
“Well, I’m not denying that Lula had problems. She put Mum through hell, as a matter of fact. It started around the same time our father died—you probably know all this, God knows there was enough about it in the press…but she was expelled from school for dabbling in drugs; she ran off to London, Mum found her living rough with addicts; the drugs exacerbated the mental problems; she absconded from a treatment center—there were endless scenes and dramas….

How would you interpret “there were endless scenes and dramas” in the context? 
Thanks!

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When someone misbehaves (like a man and woman arguing loudly in a restaurant), we might call it "making a scene," or "creating drama."  It implies that someone is acting in a way that is so inappropriate that it is almost theatrical.  "Endless scenes and dramas" is a way of saying there were far more incidents and confrontations than just the few listed in the passage.

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