Willy Loman Act 1 Key Quotes

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Cards (19)

  • ''I couldn't make it. I just couldn't make it Linda'' - 1.8
  • ''I'm vital in new England''
  • '' they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England''
  • ''Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.''
  • ''The trouble is he's lazy, goddammit!''[...]''Biff is a lazy bum!''[...]''There's one thing about Biff - he's not lazy"
  • [laughing with him at the theft]
  • ''Bernard is not well liked, is he?''
  • '' That's why I thank Almighty God you're both built like Adonises''
  • ''I'm fat. I'm very - foolish to look, Linda''
  • '' You picked me, heh?'' "i'll put you right through to the buyers" (woman)
  • "God! Why didn't I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time. Ben! That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate! What a mistake!"
  • "Walked into a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he's rich!"
  • "What the hell are you offering me a job for?"
  • ''[longingly]: Can't you stay a few days? You're just what I need, Ben [...] Dad left when I was such a baby and I never had a chance to talk to him and I still feel - kind of temporary about myself"
  • '' Will you stop!'''' Will you let me talk?'' (to linda)
  • ''A star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away'''' Like a young God, Hercules''
  • chevrolet, linda, is the greatest car ever built
  • (from the darkness is heard the laughter of a woman)- during scene where he says hes fat and she says no youre handsome
  • "the world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!"