Posted By Heather Harvey '11
We start where we left off yesterday and continue plowing through with blocking. The flashbacks are an interesting challenge, because some of Willy's memories follow a disjointed progression that eventually compound upon one another. We also had to keep in mind that one of the reasons that the scenes are not following a logical progression is that they are the memories of a troubled man whose mind is starving for the glory of years gone by.
No person and no event is free of unconscious tampering, meaning that we do not exactly see what has happened but what Willy remembers happening. As a result, there were instances from a conversation playing out with the sounds of another overlapping over the scene, and there is one place in particular in which we see distinctly separate scenes in Willy's past really torment him.