EXAM- Semester 2

Question 1

Willy’s actions cause him to be immoral and delusional but he is still an ordinary man with good intentions that works hard for his family

Answer 1

I get the feeling that I’ll never sell anything again. That I won’t make a living for you, or a business, a business for the boys

Question 2

Error- trying to conform to societal expectations

Answer 2

We don’t belong in this nuthouse of a city! We should be mixing cement on the open plain

He was a happy man with a bag of cement

Question 3

Obsession to obtain white goods

Answer 3

Chevrolet
Studebaker
JP Morgan

Question 4

Loans

Answer 4

Ninety six for the washing machine… vacuum cleaner there’s three and a half due

Question 5

Looks to future so he doesn’t admit to reality because of his pride and stubbornness which are his fatal flaws

Answer 5

Someday I’ll have my own business and I’ll never have to leave home again

Question 6

Howard firing willy- point of peripateia

Answer 6

No but it’s business kid and everybody’s gotta pull his own weight

You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away- a man is not a piece of fruit

Question 7

Howard persona

Answer 7

Superiority and authority
Successfully wealthy business man
Achieved Dream

Question 8

Anagorisis

Answer 8

Flashbacks

That boy- that boy is going yo be magnificent

That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate

Question 9

Pride and stubbornness about job

Answer 9

I got a job, I told you that. Why the hell are you offering me a job

Question 10

Biff realisation

Answer 10

Will you take that phony Dream and burn it before something happens

Question 11

Willy and death money

Answer 11

Can you imagine the magnificence of twenty thousand dollars

Question 12

Intertextual link

Answer 12

Tragic plays result in Death of tragic hero due to tragic flaw
Ambition to be king - “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other side.”
Too stubborn to admit state- “oh Ben I’d always knew one way or another we were gonna make it”

Die on own fault- oblivious to reality and only focused on power or success

Question 13

Nemesis

Answer 13

Willy takes own life

Twenty thousand dollars on a barrel head

Question 14

Audience feels pity

Answer 14

First time in thirty-five years we were just about free and clean