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Death of a Salesman Act 2 - Coggle Diagram
Death of a Salesman Act 2
Willy Loman
"Once in my life I would like to own someting outright before it's broken! I'm always in a race with the Junkyard!" Page 56-57
"The refrigerator consumes like a goddam maniac" Page 57
"Your father came to me the day you were born" (Howard) Page 62
"Put on his green velvet slippers... and without ever leaving his room... he made his living.. I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want" Page 63
"He died the death of a salesman.... when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that" Page 63
"In those days, there was personality in it...Today, it's all cut and dried, and there's no chance for bringing friendship into bear- or personality" Page 63-64
"I put 34 years into this firm, howard, and now I can't pay my insurance! You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away- a man is not a piece of fruit!" Page 64
"because it's not what you do, ben. It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, ben, Contacts!" Page 67-68
"I'd better hurry. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing''s planted. I don't have a thing in the ground" Page 96
"After all the highways, and the trains and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive"
Charley "Willy, Nobody's worth nothing dead" Page 77
"Some day they'll all play tennis together" Page 77
" A man cannot go out the same way he came in, ben, a man has got to add up to something" Page 99
Linda Loman
"You invite him to dinner. He looks foward to it all day...and then you desert him there. There's no stranger you'd do that to....You're a pair of animals! Not one, not another living soul would have had the cruelty to walk out on the man in the restaurant!" Page 98
"Be loving to him. Because he's only a little boat looking for a harbour. [she is trembling with sorrow and joy]...Biff, you'll save his life" Page 59
Happy Loman
"Excuse me, miss, do you mind? I sell champagne, and I'd like you to try my brand. Bring her a champagne, Stanley" Page 79
"His name is Biff. You might've heard of him. Great football player" Page 80
"Dad is never so happy as when he's looking foward to something!" (trying to convice Biff to Lie) Page 83
"We always told the truth!" Page 104
"No that's not my father. He's just a guy" Page 91
Biff Loman
"How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I'd been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one loom and- I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been! We've been talking in a dream for 15 years. I was a shipping clerk" Page 82
"Dad, I don't know who said it first, but I was never a salesman for Bill Oliver...Let's hold on to the facts tonight, Pop. We're not going to get anywhere bullin' around" Page 84
"You fake! You phony little fake! You fake!" (after discovering Willy's affair) Page 95
"We never told the truth for 10 minutes in this house!" Page 104
"You know why I had no adress for 3 months? I stole a suit in Kansas city and I was in jail" Page 104
"I stole myself out of every good job since high school!...And I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody!" Page 104
"I stopped in the middle of that office building, do you here this? I stopped in the middle of that building and and I saw- the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be?" Page 105
"Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!" Page 105
"I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. You were never anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like all the rest of them" Page 105
"I'm one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried 7 sates and couldn't raise it. A buck an hour!...I'm not bringing home any prizes any more, and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home" Page 105
"Pop! I'm nothing! I'm nothing, pop. Can't you understand that? There's no spite in it anymore, I'm just what I am, that's all. ...Will you let me go, for christ's sake? Will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens?"
Side Characters
Howard " Business is business" Page 63
Howard "This is the most fascinating relaxation I ever found....You can't do without it" Page 61
Bernard "But sometimes, Willy, It's better for a man just to wak away" Page 75
Charley "You named him Howard, but you can't sell that. The only thing you got in this world is what you can sell. And the funny thing is that you're a salesman, and you don't know that" Page 76-77
Charley "Why must everyone like you? Who liked J.P Morgan? Was he impressive? In a turkish bath he'd look like a butcher. But with his pockets on he was very well liked" Page 77