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Death Of A Salesman Flashcards

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1
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Willy talking about his old boss in the beginning

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If old man wager was alive I’d be in charge of New York by now

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What does Willy say about the grass

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The grass don’t grow anymore

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What does happy say about Willy in the beginning

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When he walks into the store waves part in front of him

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What does Willy say about his career in the future

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Someday I’ll have my own business

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What was Bernards warning

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He’s gonna flunk you

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What does Willy say in retaliation to Bernard

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Don’t be a pest bernard

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Willys conversation with the woman

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I picked you - woman

You picked me? - Willy

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Woman and materialism

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I love a lot of stockings

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Linda had her stockings

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Just mending my stockings

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Stage direction describing buildings

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Towering angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides

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Linda criticising biff’s behaviour around girls

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He’s too rough with the girls… all the mothers are afraid of him!

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Willy about Ben act 1

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“A great man!”

“Success incarnate”

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Willys regrets regarding Alaska

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Why didn’t I go to Alaska

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14
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What does Ben teach biff and happy

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Never fight fair with a stranger boy

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Linda defending Willy

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The man who never worked a day but for your benefit

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Linda revealing Willys suicidal intentions

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All these accidents… werent- werent accidents

“A rubber pipe”

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Willy admiring biff

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“Like a young god. Hercules”

18
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A salesman’s funeral

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When he died hundreds of salesmen and. Buyers were at his funeral

19
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Howard’s quote

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Pull yourself together and then go home

20
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Willy and Howard convo

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Now billy you never averaged-

I averaged 170 a week

21
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Willy criticising biff

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There’s on thing about biff he’s not lazy

22
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Biff stealing football

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Example

23
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Willy boasting about biff (past)

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they’ll be calling him another red grange

Bill Oliver… he wants biff very badly

24
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Bernard asking talking about biff after witnessing affair

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He disappeared… for almost a month

What happened in Boston billy ?

25
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Willy gets angry and charley

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I’ve got a job

I don’t want your goddamn job !

26
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Willy confessing to Charley

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I was just fired

27
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Biff’s realisation

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I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life had been

28
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Biff stealing again

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I took his fountain pen

29
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Biff getting annoyed a Willy’s interruptions

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Dad you’re not letting me tell you what I want to tell you

30
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Willy angry at biffs stealing

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You stole Oliver’s fountain pen!

31
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Biff shouting at hapoy

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He’s going to Jill himself don’t you know that!

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Willy making excuses for his affair

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She’s nothing to me… I was lonely… terribly lonely

33
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Orange quote

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you cant eat the orange and through the peel away- a man is not a piece of fruit

34
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What does Willy say to Stanley the waiter

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Here’s some more I don’t need it anymore

35
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Biff trying to make Willy see th reality if their situation

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You’re never going to see what I am

Will you take that phone dream and burn it before something happens

I am a dime a dozen and so are you

36
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Willy telling biff he is special

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I am not a dime a dozen I am Willy loman

37
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Linda reassuring Willy if biffs love

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He loves you Willy

38
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Willy complimenting biff right at the end

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That boy is going to be magnificent!

39
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Linda’s speech contrasts a ‘salesman’s funeral’

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Why didn’t anybody come?

40
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Biff in requiem

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He had the wrong dreams. All all wrong

41
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Happy following in willys footsteps

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Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream

42
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Linda’s entrapment

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I can’t cry. I don’t know what it is but I can’t cry

We’re free…We’re free

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