DOAS quotes

• "Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it." (15

  Willy to Linda

  The dream of success is hard to achieve and when finally achieved, it is too late or took to long
• "Bernard can get the best marks in school, y'understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y'understnad, you are going to be five times ahead of him." (33)


  Willy to Biff and Happy

  Willy has high expectations for his boys, but in reality and in the future, they are behind Bernard, not succeeding at the American Dream
• "Willly, the jails are full of fearless characters." (51)


  Charley to
• "Because I know he's a fake and he doesn't like anybody around who knows!" (58)


  Biff to Linda
• "You take it too hard. To hell with it. When a deposit bottle is broken, you don't get your nickel back." (44)


  Charley to Willy
• "And if anything falls off the desk while you're talking to him- like a package or something-don't pick it up." (67)


  Willy to Biff ?
• "...he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford, going into Boston- whenn he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at the funeral." (81)


  Willy to Howard
• "I've often thought of how strange it was that I knew he'd given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?" (94)

  Bernard to Willy
• "Willy, nobody's worth nothin' dead." (98)


  Charley to Willy
• "The jungle is dark but full of diamonds, Willy." (134)


  Ben to Willy ?
• "Sure, he's gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn't he? Coach'll probably congratualte you on your initiative!" (30)

  Willy to Happy and Biff
• "...they know me up and down New England...And when I bring you fellas up, there'll be open sesame for all of us, 'cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own." (31)


  Willy to Biff and Happy
• "Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. 'Willy Loman is here!' That's all they have to know, and I go right through." (33)

  Willy to Biff and Happy
• "You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take me." (36)


  Willy to Linda
• "Cause I get so lonely-especially when business is bad and there's nobody to talk to." (38)

  Willy to The Woman
• "God Almighty, he'll be great yet. A star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away!" (68)


  Willy to Linda?
• "Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it's broken!" (73)


  Willy to Linda
• "All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction I put in this house! There ain't a crack to be found in it any more." (74)

  Willy to Linda
• "Funny, y'know? After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years you end up worth more dead than alive." (98)


  Willy to Charley
• "But the funeral-Ben , that funeral will be massive!...that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben because he nver realized-I am known!" (126)

  Willy to Ben
• "Can you imagine that magnificence with twenty thousand dollars in his pocket?" (135)


  Willy to Ben?
• "Oh, Ben, I always knew one way or another we were gonna make it, Biff and I!" (135)


  Willy to Ben
• "I'll put you right through to the buyers." (39)


  Willy to The Woman
• "A man who can't handle tools is not a man. You're disgusting." (44)


  WIlly to Charley
• "Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich." (48)


  Ben to Willy
• "Never fight fair with a stranger, boy. You'll never get out of the jungle that way." (49)

  Ben to
• "Either he's your father and you pay him respect, or else you're not to come here." (55)

  Linda to Biff
• "This is no time for false pride, Willy. You go to your sons and you tell them that you're tired. You've got two greatboys, haven't you?" (83)

  Howard to Willy
• "We had a fist fight. It lasted at least half an hour. Just the two fo us, punching each other down the cellar, and crying right through it." (94)

  Bernard to Willy
• "We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house." (131)

  Biff to Willy
• "Nobody dast blame this man...A salesman is got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory." (138)


  Charley to Biff
• "Just because he printed University of Virginia on his sneakers doesn't mean they got to graduate him, Willy." (32)

  Bernard to Willy
• "But somethimes, Willy, it's better for a man just to walk away." (95)

  Bernard to Willy
• "...Who liked J.P. Morgan? Was he impressive? In a Turkish bath he'd look like a butcher. But with his pockets on, he was very well liked." (97)

  Charley to Willy
• "Don't make any promises. No promises of any kind." (27)


  Willy to Biff
• "Be liked and you will never want." (33)


  Willy to Biff and Happy
• "Someday I'll have my own business...Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not liked." (30)


  Willy to Biff and Happy
• "Please tell about Dad. I want my boys to hear. I want them to know the kind of stock they spring from." (48)

  Willy to Ben
• "It'd be the family agian. There'd be the old honor, and comradeship..." (64)

  Happy to Biff and Willy?
• "It's not what you say, it's how you say it-because personality always wins the day." (65)


  Willy to Biff and Happy