Willy's action of planting within t...

Willy's action of planting within the confines of his diminutive backyard is his attempt to bridge the gap between the tangible and the distant. Biff and Linda stand in the Loman kitchen and watch Willy's seemingly illogical action, shielded from Willy's perceptive gaze at the canopy of heaven above the tenements. He can find no answer to his dilemma in the cosmo above to such a degree he resorts to seeking his answer in the concretenes of the soil; neither will furnish him final solace. In John Proctor's last wish to maintain his name, he prevails as a man who is seeking the particulars of the actual among the tangled web of the metaphysics of the Puritanism that has placed him upon that scaffold. Both men find themselves in a place where many of Miller's protagonists and Ammons's personae are eventually situated-in the realm between the consolidated world of society and the perceptions and a metaphysical territory that thwarts both cogent definition and irrefutable supposition.