“Death of a Salesman” – Setting

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Description of Loman Household

The “Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller. This play is talk about an old salesman lived in a big city’s life. There are two main physical settings around the play. One is the Loman household, another one is Brooklyn’s views in the 1950s. This paragraph will focus on Loman’s house to describe what the house looks like. At first, look around the house, it is situated between apartments. Apartments around the house make it look fragile. Then go to the backyard, the open grass was yellow. Plants cannot grow on the bare grass. The house has two floors. The first floor is the parents’ bedroom, living room and kitchen. The second floor is for sons. Then take a look at the structure inside the house, the kitchen is the center of the first floor. There are simple tables, chairs, refrigerators and kitchen utensils, and these are well organized. The back of the kitchen leads to the living room, and to the right of the kitchen is the Loman’s bedroom. The Loman’s room is furnished with simple furniture and a trophy. The bedroom has a window that looks out on the side of the house. On the second floor, a staircase to the left of the kitchen leads to the sons’ room. It is upstairs in the living room. There are two beds and a dormer in the room. In conclusion, Simple house has simple furniture and simple structure, and the house surrounded by apartments, it looks dilapidated and vulnerable. However, it was kept clean by Mrs. Loman. This is a basic house look in the 1950s’ Brooklyn.

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Group Members:

Tyler, Saba, Jasmine, Carol

Component:

The Loman Household

Paragraph:

Quote #1:

As more light appears, we see a solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. (Pg.11)

Quote #2:

The kitchen at center seems actual enough, for there is a kitchen table with three chairs, and a refrigerator. (Pg.11)

Quote #3:

At the back of the kitchen there is a draped entrance, which leads to the living room. To the right of the kitchen, on a level raised two feet, is a bedroom furnished only with a brass bedstead and a straight chair. On a shelf over the bed a silver athletic trophy stands. A window opens onto the apartment house at the side. (Pg.11)

Quote #4:

Behind the kitchen, on a level raised six and a half feet, is the boys’ bedroom, at present barely visible. Two beds are dimly seen and at the back of the room a dormer window. (Pg.11)

Quote #5:

Willy: “The way they boxed us in here. Bricks and windows, windows and bricks!” (pg.17)

Quote #6:

Willy: “The grass don’t grow anymore, you can’t raise a carrot in the backyard… Remember those two beautiful elm trees out there? When Biff and I hung the swing between them? (Pg.17)

Quote #7:

Whenever the action is in the present the actors observe the imaginary wall-lines, entering the house only through its door at the left. (Pg.12)

Quote #8: Well before they have finished speaking, Willy’s form is dimly seen below in the darkened kitchen (Pg.17-PDF)

Quote #9:

Can’t we do something about the walls? You sneeze in here, and in my house hats blow off. (pg 42)

Quote #10:

Willy: “Did you see the ceiling I put up in the living-room?”
Charley: “Yeah, that’s a piece of work. To put up a ceiling in a mystery to me….” (Pg.44)

Brooklyn (Appearance Fact #1)

New concrete-and-glass apartment buildings hitched up against the water near East River and Bushwick Inlet Parks.

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/13/travel/my-brooklyn-then-and-now.html

Brooklyn (Appearance Fact #2)

In the 1950s, Brooklyn had a playground for young people. The streets of Brooklyn are thronged with people.

https://spoilednyc.com/2015/11/06/take-a-look-at-brooklyn-from-back-in-the-1950s/

Brooklyn (Appearance Fact #3)

The Narrows, separating Brooklyn from the borough of Staten Island in New York City and crossed by the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge.

Brooklyn (Appearance Fact #4)

Brooklyn’s water borders are extensive and varied, including Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.

Brooklyn (Appearance Fact #5)

To the east of Brooklyn lies the borough of Queens, which contains John F. Kennedy International Airport in that borough’s Jamaica neighborhood, approximately two miles from the border of the East New York neighborhood of Brooklyn.

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