key quotes Flashcards
quote showing the ways of the capitalist world
‘work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it’
error of judgement of willy believing success is driven by popularity
‘Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not-liked. He’s liked but he’ not well-liked’
‘I am not a dime a dozen, I am willy Loman and you are Biff loman!’
Ben quote about jungle
‘boys when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty one I walked out. (He laughs). And by God, I was rich’
Willy parenting error of judgement about capitalist world + his sons
“That’s just the spirit I was to imbue them with! To walk into a jungle! I was right! I was right! I was right!
Linda’s realisation about Willy in Act 1
‘a terrible thing is happening to him. so attention must be paid’
Linda’s blame onto Biff
‘Biff, I swear to God! Biff his life is in your hands’
Linda’s further realisation in act 2
‘He’s only a little boat looking for a harbour’
Willy’s disconnection about the business world and what it actually is
‘You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit’
Linda’s desperation towards Willy’s life
‘You’re doing well enough Willy’
Willy’s error of judgement in Biff’s future
‘this is the greatest day of his life’
Willy’s realisation and confession to Charley at end of Act 2
‘After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and they years, you end up worth more dead than alive’
Willy’s confession to his boys in the restaurant
‘There’s a big blaze going on all around. I was fired today’
Inevitability of the tragedy at the end of Act 2
‘Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero’
Biff’s realisation of his father’s error at end of Act 2
‘There’s more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made’
quotes showing the American Dream
‘he had all the wrong dreams, all wrong’ (Biff - requiem)
biff’s self realisation
‘i realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been’
‘you blew me so full of hot air I couldn’t stand taking orders from anyone’
Linda at the requiem
‘why didn’t anybody come?’
Willy’s belief in redemption
‘Can you imagine that magnificence with twenty thousand dollars in his pocket’
