Death of a Salesman Flashcards

1
Q

‘To me you are.

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The handsomest. [from the darkness is heard the laughter of a woman] (Linda)- p29

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2
Q

‘He’s been

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trying to kill himself’ (Linda)- p46

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3
Q

‘I’m always in

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a race with the junkyard’ (Willy)- p57

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4
Q

‘He’s going to

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kill himself, don’t you know that?’ (Biff)- p91

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5
Q

‘Pop, I’m nothing!

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I’m nothing, pop. Can’t you understand that? There’s no spite in it anymore. I’m just what I am, that’s all’ (Biff)- p105

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6
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‘I never had

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a chance to say goodbye’ (Linda)- p111

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7
Q

‘I made the last

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payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home’ (Linda)- p112

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8
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[A melody is heard played upon a flute. It is…

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telling of grass and trees and the horizon…before us is the salesman’s house. We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides]- p7

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9
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‘They boxed

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us in here. Bricks and windows. Windows and bricks.’ (Willy)- p12

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10
Q

‘He’s planting

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the garden!’ (Linda)- p99

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11
Q

‘There’s more of him

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in that front stoop tha in all the sales he’s ever made’ (Biff)- p110

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12
Q

‘To suffer

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fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you desire is to be outdoors’ (Biff)- p16

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13
Q

‘Oh, won’t that be

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something! Me comin’ into the Boston stores with you boys carryin’ my bags. What a sensation!’ (Willy)- p24

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14
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‘And what goes through

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a man’s mind, driving seven hundred miles home without having earned a cent?’ (Linda)- p45

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15
Q

‘His whole

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attitude seemed to be hopeful’ (Linda)- p55

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16
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‘When he died,

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hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral’ (Willy) p-63

17
Q

‘Dad is never

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so happy as when he’s looking forward to something’ (Happy)- p83

18
Q

‘I’m so

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lonely’ (Willy)- p92

19
Q

‘How do we

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get back to all the great times?’ (Willy)- p101

20
Q

‘He had the wrong

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dreams. All, all wrong.’ (Biff)- p110

21
Q

‘A salesman is got

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to dream, boy. It comes with the territory.’ (Charley)- p111

22
Q

‘Cause one thing boys:

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I have friends’ (Willy)- p24

23
Q

‘You want

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a job?’ (Charley)- p33

24
Q

[sarcastically] ‘Glad to her it, Willy.

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Come in later. We’ll shoot a little casino’ (Charley)- p40

25
Q

‘I am offering

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you a job’ (Charley) ‘I don’t want your goddamn job!’ (Willy)- p76

26
Q

‘Nobody dast

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blame this man’ (Charley)- p111