Willy Flashcards
How is Willy introduced?
- sympathetically ‘he lets his burden down’
- ‘the Salesman’
- ‘I’m tired to the death’
How does Willy vaguely reference society
‘some people accomplish something’
How is Willy contradictory about Biff
- ‘Biff is a lazy bum’
- ‘one thing about Biff, he’s not lazy’
What does Willy say to Ben about business
‘business is bad, its murderous. But not for me of course’
How does Willy compare Biff and Bernard
- ‘you are going to be 5 times ahead of him’
- ‘you never grew up. Bernard does not whistle in the elevator’
What does Willy promise Linda in the future at the start of act 2
‘we’re gonna get a little place out in the country and I’ll raise some chickens, a couple of vegetables’
What does Willy tell Howard about the Loman family
‘we’ve got quite a streak of self reliance in our family’
Who inspired Willy to be a salesman
- Dave Singleman
- ‘hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral’
- focusing on value after death
What does Willy tell Howard that a man is not
‘You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away, a man is not a piece of fruit’
The importance of legacy to Willy
- ‘if a man is building something, he must be on the right track’
- ‘you end up worth more dead than alive’
- ‘a man has got to add up to something’
What does Willy tell Ben the key to success is
- ‘it’s not what you do Ben. But who you know and the smile on your face’
What does Willy say to Biff and Happy in regard to Linda
‘The woman has waited and the woman has suffered’
How does Willy react to being called a dime a dozen
‘I am not a dime a dozen, I am Willy Loman’
