(The expression is by Miller, from his introduction to his Collected Plays, p.26) ‘A mobile concurrency of past and present’ This non-past/non-present is confined to Willy’s inner mind, to Willy’s subjective world. The past/present dichotomy is replaced by a non-past non-present, in which different temporal layers commingle and coalesce. Memories constantly impinge on present situations and, conversely, the present is put at some distance by the flood of recollections. In “the inside of Willy’s head”, past and present are blurred. If the external plot of Death of a Salesman may be divided into chronologically organised sequences: Act one (Monday evening and night) Act two (Tuesday), and the requiem a few days after (Willy’s burial), the same is not true of the internal plot: Willy’s stream of consciousness.
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