EXAM- Semester 2 Flashcards
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
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
Error- trying to conform to societal expectations
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
Obsession to obtain white goods
Chevrolet
Studebaker
JP Morgan
Loans
Ninety six for the washing machine… vacuum cleaner there’s three and a half due
Looks to future so he doesn’t admit to reality because of his pride and stubbornness which are his fatal flaws
Someday I’ll have my own business and I’ll never have to leave home again
Howard firing willy- point of peripateia
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
Howard persona
Superiority and authority
Successfully wealthy business man
Achieved Dream
Anagorisis
Flashbacks
That boy- that boy is going yo be magnificent
That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate
Pride and stubbornness about job
I got a job, I told you that. Why the hell are you offering me a job
Biff realisation
Will you take that phony Dream and burn it before something happens
Willy and death money
Can you imagine the magnificence of twenty thousand dollars
Intertextual link
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
Nemesis
Willy takes own life
Twenty thousand dollars on a barrel head
Audience feels pity
First time in thirty-five years we were just about free and clean
