Litrary devices

Metaphor:

Dickie Bird Halked was born in a bar. This is a metaphor for the fact that his mother drank while she was pregnant with him and led to fetal alcohol syndrome causing him to not be able to talk.

Zachary is unwilling to give the council reason to push Big Joey's radio business ahead of his bakery. This is a metaphor that Zachary desires to be successful at any cost as, if he doesn't do that for Big Joey, his wife will be told that he cheated on her.

Foreshadowing

NanaBush climbing above the setting of the stage foreshadows that this play is not realistic and thus the dream.