Reality spiced up with imagination

In regards the play being either realistic or non realistic, this play was very peculiar. In many respects, the play had many realistic qualities to it. It consisted of the life of a hardworking American family trying to survive through external and internal struggles. All the characters go about in a very realistic way except for one. Willie is where the non realistic aspect of the play begins to form. While we are never told what exactly, Willie throughout the play seems to hallucinate people and events from the past. This happens quite frequently and the people from the past will appear onstage and act the past even that Willie is reminiscing. However, this is done with the other actors in the present time as well. This is where the non realistic portion of the play is portrayed. The actors from the present act like the hallucinations of Willie's are not there. By having the hallucinations and the present actors onstage at the same time is what lets the audience know that Willie is having the hallucinations randomly at the same time he is with the other characters. So the face that the characters from the different dimensions are together and act like the other is not in the same room is where the non realistic aspect is deployed.