From the right,willy loman,the Salesman, enters, car-rying two large sample cases.
Why does his title carry so much weight to it? What's Willy selling that has so much importance?
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See, Biff, everybody around me is sofalse that I’m constantly lowering my ideals . . .biff: Baby, together we’d stand up for one another,
Is there anything really stopping these two from just leaving? They both are lost and seem to have an answer right in front of them.
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Chevrolet, Linda, is the greatest car ever built.
Why does he so violently contrast his own thoughts later on?
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You and Hap and I, and I’ll show you all thetowns. America is full of beautiful towns and fine, upstand-ing people. And they know me, boys, they know me upand down New England. The finest people. And when Ibring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us,’cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car inany street in New England, and the cops protect it like theirown. This summer, heh?
It really does look like Willy had some high aspirations for his sons. This paragraph in particular really reminds me of my own dad and how he talks about travel.
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[young biffandyoung happyappear from the direc-tionwillywas addressing.happycarries rags and a pail ofwater.biff,wearing a sweater with a block ‘‘S,’’ carries afootball.]
I'm not sure if this is an indication of the transition into a memory or something that Willy is creating in his head. Is he still speaking out loud?
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willyis gradually addressing—physically—a point off-stage, speaking through the wall of the kitchen, and his voicehas been rising in volume to that of a normal
I wonder just how deep Willy's delusions go. Does he actually believe that he's talking to Biff? Or is he aware that no one is there?
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