A theatrical stage set showing a cross-section of a house with a kitchen, bedroom, and attic room, against a backdrop of glowing orange city apartment buildings at night. A man with two suitcases stands on the stage apron, while a woman stands inside the house.

In the foreground is Salesman's house with towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides. There's a blue light that falls upon the house and forestage. The surrounding area shows an angry glow of orange. There's solid vault of apartment houses around the small, fragile-seeming home. In the kitchen at center, there is a kitchen table with three chairs and a refrigerator. But no other fixtures are seen. At the back of the kitchen there is 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. Behind the kitchen, on a level raised six and a half feet, is the boy's bedroom, At present barely visible. Two beds are dimly seen, and at the back of the room a dormer window. That bedroom is above the unseen living room. At the left a stairway curves up to it from the kitchen. The entire setting is wholly, or in some places, partially transparent. The roofline of the house is one-dimensional; under and over it the apartment building there can be seen. Before the House lies in apron, curving beyond the forestage into the orchestra. This forward area serves as the back yard as well as the locale. However, you only enter the house through its door at the left. The salesman, enters, carrying two large sample cases. He's past sixty years of See more