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Death Of A Salesman by Arthur Miller - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Biff is particularly moved by the fact that Willy gives his mother's stockings to his lover.
- - - - BIFF: I never intended to do it. Dad! OPERATOR'S VOICE: Standish Arms, good evening! WILLY [shouting]: I'm not in my room! (p. )
  - - - In the Requiem, a poignant scene, Charley says of Willy, 'He was a happyman with a batch of cement'.
        
        At such an emotional time, his might seem an inappropriate remark, yet ordinary people do not speak in poetic language.
- - - - Spectators do not lose sight of the present context but are made to understand that suddenly Willy has lapsed into a mental vision and therefore cut himself off from his immediate environment.
        
        (64] in Howard Wagner’s office, Willy stares at the empty seat and addresses Frank, who is of course absent, long dead and gone…
    - - [34-36] The card game scene in stichomythic dialogue. It prepares the shift into the past. As soon as Charley leaves, we enter the past: “through the wall line of the kitchen”.
    - - Willy spends most of his time on stage, in a continuous flow of words. He engages in conversations with characters who, like his sons or Charley, belong to his real, immediate environment. But he also discusses with figures who surge up from the inner world of his consciousness
        
        Ben represents an ideal figure that stands closer to reality. In Willy’s consciousness, Ben bridges the gap between the realm of fancy and the reality level. toughness, unscrupulousness and implacability in the pursuit of gain
        
        Willy’s father is part mythic, part allegorical figure that belongs to his very earliest and vaguest childhood recollections: he is a fantasized image, a romanticized Father figure, or the paradigmatic embodiment of the heroic pioneer.