#1 real or not?

This is an interesting play because it presents the plot in a fashion that the reader (or viewer) is not familiar with. Tom is presented at both the narrator and character in the story. THis in itself is unusual. Tom then tells us that the play is a memory, so the setting is in both the present and the future. Because the play is a memory, characters and events are enhanced just as the person remembering the events sees them. This is a difficult concept to grasp beacuse usually a story is told in past or present. This part of the play is nonrealistic. Along with this is the music in the background and the set. Things that are realistic include the events. There may in fact be an overbearing mother with a cripled daughter and rebelious son. These events could take place and make the play something that the audience can relate to. In this way the play displays both realistic and nonrealistic convention.