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Conventions

Paranoia Superficiality Infidelity

Scene 5 - Airport scene 'The extremes people go to for the 'perfect' life Scene 1
- Contrasting characters between Dez and Tim - self proclaimed 'good people' - Pauses
- Costuming: Dez - never allowed to appear real - Space and proxemics
- Childish, juvenile like clothing - twin towers of civilised restraint - Apparent lying
- 'You need to know I have called security. They will be here - Silent conversations between Dez and Angela while Tim is
any second.' Scene 9 turned away
- 'Tim. You're a pilot. I like aeroplanes. That's all this is.' - Great use of pause - 'I didn't say I was a friend'
- Unhappiness when facing away from each other - 'He doesn't know me--us. He doesn't know us.'
- 'We're good.' 'Better than that.' 'We're great.' 'Yes.' 'Yes.'

Set Design
- Perfect, clean, white, marble, stiff
- clinical and impersonal
- artificially clean, cold lines of their environment
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Conventions

Breakdown of the family Duelling role of women Masculinity

Set Design Final scene - angel/whore dichotomy
- ghost of a home - space and proxemics
- uninviting room - Ruth's stillness in comparison to the restlessness of men
- broken and incomplete - shifting gender roles
- masculine furniture, shabby feminine decor - Ruth's lack of dialogue
- the fray of wallpaper still hangs from the ceiling where a wall - 'Eddie. Don't become a stranger.'
used to be
''Take a sip from my glass' scene
Incest - Final scene - Pause (Pinter Pause) - power of silence
- 'maybe we should keep her' - Symbolism - the glass as a sexual innuendo
- Men standing around while Ruth sits - 'If you take my glass...I'll take you'
- 'Sit on my lap. Take a long cool sip'
Act 2, Scene 1 - Lunch scene
- Comparative scene with Ruth's dominance and Max's
dominance
Symbolism - walking sticks
- 'maybe we should keep her' - Max, raising walking stick
- contrasted by Teddy lowering it - 'we're married, you know'
- also used as a threat of abusive discipline
- more active when near Ruth