Setting

• 'A melody is heard, played upon a flute.'

  Fine flute masks the reality of the American dream.

  Hope and expressionism

  Reminder of what he could have been.
• 'Towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides.'

  Trapped in his mind, lack of luxury
• 'Small, fragile seeming home.'
• 'An air of dream clings to the place, a dream rising out of reality.'

  Pastoral dreams

  Illusory world of deceit
• 'Music is heard, gay and bright.'

  • Joyful melody juxtaposes act 1
  • Uplifting sense of hope