Death of a Salesman

Question 1

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man

Question 2

I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life.

Question 3

They don’t need me in New York. I’m the New England man. I’m vital in New England.

Question 4

I’ve got to get some seeds. I’ve got to get some seeds right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.

Question 5

I don’t say he’s a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid/ He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog.

Question 6

You can’t eat an orange and throw away the peel - a man is not a piece of fruit.

Question 7

And when I saw that, I realised selling was the greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?

Question 8

A salesman is got to dream, boy.

Question 9

Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be?

Question 10

I’m gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have.

Question 11

I’m not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you.