“The jungle is dark, but full of diamonds” - Ben's final mantra in Act 2 to Willy
Linda: “A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”
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Linda: “You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
Biff Act 2: “I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”
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Linda: I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. 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 in
Linda: 'he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”
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Biff: “Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To suffer fifty
Charley: The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
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Excessive pride: “I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!”
'phony dream'
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Ben: When I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich.”
Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.”
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Willy: 'I'm vital in New England "
'hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral."- Singleman's funereal. Thinks about it when he is fired
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Bernard: I knew he'd given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?"
Linda- "Maybe it's your glasses. You never went for your new glasses"
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Charley: "Willy, nobody's worth nothin' dead."
"Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer.
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I can park my car in any street in New England and the cops protect it like their own."
The Woman: "I'll put you right through to the buyers."
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Willy: "Cause I get so lonely--especially when business is bad and there's nobody to talk to."
He's liked, but not well-liked.
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Biff: I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.
Willy: '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.
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Linda- “life is a casting off”
Opening line stage directions- “an air of a dream climbs to the place, a dream rising out of reality”
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“Biff is a lazy bum’ “In the greatest country in the world a young man with such personal attractiveness gets lost”
“The population is getting out of control and the competition is maddening”
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Stealing football- “congratulations on using your initiative”
Linda “you’re my foundation and support” “you make mountains out of molehills”
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Willy- “.you are both built like Adonises , because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, in the man who gets ahead
“The woman bursts out laughing and Linda’s laughter blends in”
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“The woods are burning”
Willy to Ben- “I feel kind of temporary about myself’
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“Like a young god. Hercules’
Biff- “he’s a fake’
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Biff: I am not a leader of men, Willy and neither are you’
Willy’s insecurities: ‘people don’t seem to take to me’
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Willy to Charley- "A man who can't handle tools is not a man. You're disgusting."
His teachings regarding success to the boys: ‘The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress’
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Biff to Willy- ‘you have filled me with hot air’
Requiem- "I made the last payment on the house today" - Linda
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Biff Act 2: “I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”
Back
Linda: “You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit.”
Card 3
Front
Linda: 'he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”
Back
Card 4
Front
Charley: The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
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