event/ quote

• Willy's family life

  'Father was a very great and wild-hearted man
• Willy's father leaves family

  'Dad left when I was such a baby . . . I never had a chance to talk to him and I still feel kind of temporary about myself.
• Ben goes to Africa and makes fortune in diamonds

  'When I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. When I walked out I was twenty-one. And, by God, I was rich!'

  'The jungle was dark but full of diamonds'

  Willy starts family with Linda
• Ben offers W a job in Alaska - refuses

  'If I'd gone to Alaska that time, everything would be different
• W meets Singleman & chooses career in selling

  'I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want' 'singleman' 'died the death of a salesman
• Biff's popularity/ academic struggles/ support from Bernard

  'Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understand, you are going to be five steps ahead of him. That's why I thank almighty God you're both built like Adonises
• B steals football

  '(laughing with him at the theft)
• W starts affair w women

  Women: 'I picked you
• Ebbets field game


  B: 'That touchdown is for you
• B fails math

  'I'm sure he'll change it for you
• B goes to Boston & discovers affair

  'You fake! You phoney little fake!
• What does Biff do after finding out about affair?

  doesn't go to uni, works with bill Oliver, steals
• W is unsuccessful in career - working on commission - unhappy in life and home

  'The way they boxed us in here' ' They massacred the neighbourhood'

  'I'm vital in New England'

  'Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own and there's nobody to live in it'
• Biff is working on a farm which Willy disproves of

  'Dreams are stronger and less acceptable'

  'There's nothing more inspiring or - beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt'

  'How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life?
• Happy is unhappy in his life and career

  'Everyone around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals
• Linda tells the boys about Willy's suicidal thoughts

  'Biff his life is in your hands
• Linda recognises Willy's frgaility

  'So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog
• Family business idea


  'You guys together could absolutely lick the civilised world
• Linda shows recognition of Willy's weakness

  ' He's only a little boat looking for a harbour
• Willy fired by Howard

  'You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit
• Willy learns about Bernard becoming a lawyer

  'The Supreme Court! And he didn't even mention it!
• Biff meets with Bill Oliver but is ignored

  'He walked away. I saw him for one minute
• Charley offers Willy a job but he refuses

  'I got a job' 'Without pay? What kind of job is a job without pay?'

  'Why must everybody like you? Who liked J.P. Morgan?
• Restaurant scene - Biff tries to confront Willy but he refuses to listen

  'He walked away. I saw him for one minute' 'I realised what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been!
• Happy continues to use women to fill dissatisfaction

  Biff is 'quarterback with the New York Giants' 'I sell champagne
• Willy abandoned at restaurant

  'That's not my father. He's just a guy
• When leaving restaurant he asks Stanley where he can get some seeds


  'I'd like to buy some seeds' 'I don't have a thing in the ground
• Willy's final hallucination of Ben

  'Does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up a zero'

  'Ben, that funeral will be massive!'

  'Ben, he'll worship me for it
• Biff confronts Willy


  'I stole myself out of every good job since high school'

  'You blew me so full of hot hair I could never stand taking orders from anyone'

  'I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman
• Willy's suicide


  (crashes car)
• Funeral


  'But where are all the people he knew?'

  'He never knew who he was'

  'He was so wonderful with his hands' - Linda

  He had the wrong dreams' - Biff

  Charley's speech at funeral

  'Nobody dast blame this man