Question 1 1) Aston and Davies have adopted a very strange kind of communication; very short replies, long silences. That both characters may not show feel at ease.
First, Davies and Aston are not friends, they don’t know each other much. Secondly it’s the first time Davies is in Aston and Mike’s place. So Davies may feels uncomfortable but this conversation is made to give the audience information about the characters, specially their psychological profiles. This why all along the period of silence, the audience can understand the characters and have a better knowledge of them.

2) The two characters are Davies and Aston, in this play the scene takes place in a house, a room, on stage. Davies is a tramp. He is introduced in the room by Aston who lives with Mike; there both seem to be in a kind of misery.

3) The play starts with Mick, Aston’s friend, alone in the room. Davies and Aston join him and they start talking. Aston prays Davies to sit down but Davies evoques the fact that he hasn’t had a good sit down and he reminds the two characters of the place where he worked with a lot of foreign people. The dialogue between Aston and Davies is about Davies life. At the beginning of the play gives a very detailed description of the room on the stage. So attention is, when Davies is given shelter his drawn by the fact that this room doesn’t looks like bed room but a junk room. Moreover the room is sometimes exposed to draughts that Davies underlines:”What in that”, “get very draughty”. Through the dialogue between Aston and Davies the reader’s attention is surprised by the fact that Aston’s replies are very short almost one or two words:”ah,” are you?”. Moreover in between lots of “pause” are indicated. This shows that Aston doesn’t seem interested by Davies preoccupations.

Question 2

We don’t know much about Aston and mike identity. For exemple, Aston didn’t give his name. we know much about davies. Davies told us that he is being McDavies or