death of a salesman

• "I'm not an errand boy to the man down stairs" - Willy
• "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" - Howard
• "I am not a dime store novel!" - Linda
• "Attention must be paid! Attention MUST finally be PAID TO such men and their families..." - Linda
• "We are all of us magicians, and none of us are" - Biff
• "He was my father. They oughta have a law against killing a man's dreams." - Biff
• "He was my father... he was somebody else too..." - Biff
• "I'd rather die than not be my father" - Happy
• "I'll tell ya something else...you gotta have a dream if you wanna make it in this country." - Willy
• "He was a great guy, he had style" - Biff about Ben
• "I'm gonna knock the hell outta him!" - Happy
• "I'll tell ya one thing about your old man, he ain't no bum!" - Charley
• "A guy goes nuts if he isn't wanted, by anyone" - Willy
• "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" - Howard
• "I'm gonna kill myself tonight" - Willy
• "It's like when you were a kid and your father used to take you out on Sundays and show you the birds and the flowers and the trees and then one day you found out he was just a bum who had had enough gin last night to wipe his mind out!" - Biff
• Happy has his own apartment and Biff wants to live in the country.
• Biff asks, "Why am I trying to become what I don't want to be? What am I doing in an office making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself when all I want to be is waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am."
• Biff says, "Pop, I'm a dime a dozen and so are you."
• Happy says, "I'm gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain, he had a good dream, it's the only dream you can have - to come out number-one man, he fought it out here and this is where I'm gonna win it for him."
• You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it
• Happy says, "I don't know what the hell I'm working for, sometimes I sit in my apartment - all alone and I think about the rent I'm paying and it's crazy, but then, it's all I wanted, my own apartment, a car, plenty of women, and still goddamnit I'm lonely."
• Happy admits, "I'm not a leader of men Willy, and neither are you."
• Willy compares himself to an orange, stating that you can't eat the orange and throw the peel away, as a man is not a piece of fruit.
• The two elm trees out there are where I and Biff hung the swing.
• Linda tells Ben and Willy that they must pay attention to Willy, as he's a human being and a terrible thing is happening to him.
• The 'silver athletic trophy' on the shelf is a prize for Biff.
• Ben tells Biff not to fight fair with a stranger boy, as he'll never get out of the jungle that way.
• Willy believes that selling is the greatest career a man can want, as it allows him to be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people.
• Charley advises Biff that a salesman must always dream.
• Willy's quote: 'After all the highways and the trains and the appointments and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.'
• Biff tells Willy, "You were never but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash can like the rest of them, I'm one-dollar an hour Willy, I tried seven states and couldn't raise it, a buck an hour, Willy, do you gather my meaning? I'm not bringing home any prizes anymore and you're going to stop waiting for me to bring them home."
• Charley tells Willy, "Willy, when're you're gonna realise that them things don't mean anything, 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."
• The house is described as being aware of towering angular shapes behind it, surrounding it on all sides, only the blue light of the sky falls upon the house.
• The house is described as having an angry glow of orange.
• The house is described as having three chairs and a refrigerator.
• The house is described as being in a solid vault of apartment houses.
• The house is described as a salesman's house.
• The house is described as being in a neighbourhood where there's not a breath of fresh air, the grass don't grow anymore, you can't raise a carrot in the back yard, they should've had a law against apartment houses.