DOAS quotations Flashcards
Act 1: Stage direction describing position of house.
“We are aware of towering, angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides.”
Act 1: Description of Willy’s cruelty to Linda.
“Most often jovial, she has developed an iron repression of her exceptions to Willy’s behaviour — she more than loves him, she admires him, as though his mercurial nature,
his temper, his massive dreams and little cruelties served her only as sharp reminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares”
Act 1: Willy comes home & is tired.
“I’m tired to the death. (The flute has faded away…) I couldn’t make it. I just couldn’t make it, Linda.”
Act 1: Willy’s arrogance about missing things.
“No. I see evervthing.”
Act 1: Willy, link to Prince the horse.
“That man was a Prince.”
Act 1: Willy about paying & owning the house.
“Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it.”
Act 1: Willy’s contradictory opinion on his temper.
“When the hell did I lose my temper?”
Act 1: Linda, “crestfallen on the landing, Champagne problems” - Taylor Swift.
“He was Crestfallen, Willy. You know how he admires you I think if he finds himself, then you’ll both be happier and not fight any more.”
Act 1: Willy’s false view on Biff working hard.
“Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. There’s one thing about Biff- he’s not lazy.”
Act 1: Willy speaking about car miles.
“The dealer refused to believe there was eighty thousand miles on it.”
Act 1: Stage direction on Happy’s sexuality.
“Sexuality is like a visible color on him, or a scent that many women have discovered.”
Act 1: Biff speaking about high school, he’s trapped like Willy.
“Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up.”
Act 1: Happy’s lonely.
“But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely.”
Act 1: Biff talking about American Dream (ranches).
“Sure. maybe we could buy a ranch. Raise cattle, use our muscles. Men built like we are should be working out in the open.”
Act 1: Happy dehumanising women.
“Now weren’t they gorgeous creatures?”
Act 1: Happy speaking about women (stereotypical view of marriages). (2)
“That girl Charlotte I was with tonight is engaged to be married in five weeks.”
“Maybe I just have an overdeveloped he sense of competition or something, but I went and ruined her, and wins furthermore I can’t get rid of her.”
Act 1: Willy’s hubris showing (car).
“’cause one thing, boys: Ihave friends. I can. park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it. like their own. This summer, heh?”
Act 1: Happy’s false perception of Biff’s success (looks) in high school.
“There’s a crowd of girls behind him everytime the classes change.”
Act 1: Willy being brutal to Bernard. (2)
“What’re you lookin’ so anemic about, Bernard?”
“Don’t be a pest. Bernard! (To his boys:) What an anemic!”
Act 1: Willy’s false perception about whether his sons or Bernard will be more successful.
“But when he gets out in the business world y’understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him. That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises,”
Act 1: Willy thinking Linda can’t do things for herself.
“Since when do you let your mother carry wash up the stairs?”
Act 1: Willy can’t accept his failure & blames other things.
“The trouble was that three of the stores were half closed for inventory in Boston. Otherwise I would have broke records.”
Act 1: Hardy criticising American Dream through Linda.
“Well, there’s nine-sixty for the washing machine. And for the vacuum cleaner there’s three and a half due on the fifteenth Then the roof, you got twenty-one dollars remaining.”
Act 1: Willy talking about car manufacturer.
“I’m not going to pay that man! That goddam
Chevrolet they ought to prohibit the manufacture of that car!”
