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== Description ==
A farmhouse atop a large hill. A family graveyard is located next to the house, with headstones inscribed with the surnames of the unfortunate: Nowakowski, Padilla, and Márquez. Shannon says that she doesn't know the first two names, and claims no one is buried there, calling it "decorative." [[File:Mielziner Salesman set 1.jpg|thumb|right|Jo Mielziner's opening set design for ''Death of a Salesman''.]][[File:Mielziner Salesman set 2.jpg|thumb|right|Another sketch of the ''Salesman'' set by Mielziner.]]
[[Joseph]]'s computer gives directions from [[Equus Oils]]:
== Name and references ==
The name "Márquez" comes from the famous Colombian magical realist author [[wikipedia:Gabriel García Márquez|Gabriel García Márquez]]; the farmhouse's street name and number, 100 Macondo Lane, is a reference are references to the town of [[wikipedia:Macondo|Macondo]] featured in his novel ''[[wikipedia:One Hundred Years of Solitude|One Hundred Years of Solitude]]''.
The design of the farmhouse is based on scenic designer [[wikipedia:Jo Mielziner|Jo Mielziner]]'s rendering of the opening set for the original Broadway production of [[wikipedia:Arthur Miller|Arthur Miller]]'s ''[[wikipedia:Death of a Salesman|Death of a Salesman]]'' in 1949.
