Chinese Restaurant
The salesman in this play use the Chinese restaurant as a way to get away from grind of the office where they are meant to be making cold calls. They drink, eat, and even persuade potential clients to buy from them. The imagery shows the unnatural nature of these men. This is a place where people are meant to be fed, but it's not home, thus the salesmen are feeding themselves all of the lies they've inherited from the job and as Roma shows, he feeds Lingk his lies as well.
Sales Office
The sales office is one of the two main sets in the play. The image of a sales board that if you are not on it, means you get fired. We see Levene being haunted by the looming nature of his fate. And the broken glass and ransacked office shows us that this is not a safe place.
Roma's Monologue
Roma gives a monologue to Lingk at the Chinese restaurant where he talks about having done something with his life. The imagery he uses to convince Lingk that he needs to do something with his life such as what he remembers after having great sex or the feeling after taking a dump. All of this creates in Lingk and the audience a desire to see what he is saying which causes us to fall into his sales trap.
Lingk
Lingk comes into the sales office in order to get the check back that he wrote to Roma after his wife demands he do so. The imagery of him being caught between letting his wife down and letting Roma down, who he believes is his friend, shows us this is a man unable to claim any sort of power in his life. He gives it all away to other people. And we see the types of men that Roma preys one, those who are weak.
