Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Analyzing the Set: Death of a Salesman

After revisiting the play and looking for other ways to analyze the production, I noticed interesting details about the set of the play. In the opening scene of the play, we are shown the house. The house is set so that the furniture is bare and shabby. This emphasizes the theme of poverty in the play. At 8 minutes, the camera shifts so that we can see Happy and Biff in their room. The wallpaper in the room--possibly even the attic--is patched together in a way that shows the true lack of resources in the home. This tells us as viewers that the family is desperately poor and struggling to make ends meet. This is a persistent theme in this production of the play.
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