setting and opening

Question 1

what quotes describe the setting in the opening introduction?

Answer 1

• ‘towering angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides’
  ‘angry glow of orange’
  symbolic of extreme pressure and heat to succeed from 1940 rapidly changing America.
• ‘a solid vault of apartment houses around a small, fragile - seeming home’ - the rest of the world surrounding confused mental Willy.
• an air of dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality.

Question 2

suitcase

Answer 2

‘let’s his burden down’

• symbol of materialism and the heavy American Dream
• we never find out what’s in it

Question 3

time

Answer 3

play constantly flits between past and present - M wanted these to be fluid transitions creating a “continuous present”

Question 4

lighting

Answer 4

forestage represents remembered time - dramatises Willy’s increasingly desperate and painful recreations of past memories and other imaginings.