ACT 1 Flashcards
Willy comes home
“I’m tired to death… I couldn’t make it. I just couldn’t make it Linda”
inventory quote
“The trouble was that three of the stores were half-closed for inventory in Boston. Otherwise I woulda broke records”
contradicts himself
“I’m very well liked in Hartford” “people don’t seem to take to me” in one line
uncle ben
‘carrying a valise and an umbrella’ ‘with a moustache and an authoritative air’
Willy’s father
“Great Inventor, Father. With one gadget he made more in a week than a man like you could make in a lifetime”
his father played the flute
linda on willy’s job. a small man…
“a small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. He works for the company thirty-six years… and now in his old age they take his salary away”
dog grave
“He’s not allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. a
Attention, attention, attention must finally be paid to such a man”
- sums up the play’s central message: that human beings are not a meaning to an end and however insignificant deserve respect and dignity.
- repetition like political slogan. “must” URGENT FORCEFUL TONE presented by Miller.
