DOAS quotations Flashcards
Linda’s repressed rage.
“Did you have to go to women tonight? You and your lousy rotten whores?”
“Biff Loman is lost…” - Willy.
“In the greatest country in the world a young man with such- personal attractiveness, gets lost.”
Willy’s tired.
“I’m tired to death.”
Willy’s cruelties.
“His mercurial nature and little cruelties.”
Motif of flute.
“The flute faded away.”
Willy commenting of house.
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it.”
Stage direction- house placement.
“We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides.”
Linda, Willy’s unnecessary suicide.
“I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there’ll be nobody home.”
Charley offering Willy a job.
- “Now listen, Willy, I know you don’t like me, and nobody can say I’m in love with you, but I’ll give you a job because- just for the hell of it.”
Willy’s affair.
“From the darkness is heard the laughter of a woman. Willy doesn’t turn to it.”
Willy’s guilt.
“I won’t have you mending stockings in this house!”
