emotional + passionate intensity

• the turbulent longings within him, longings which she shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow to their end'


  sd of linda's emotions(4) shows how willy's completely passionate when faced with a goal, something linda can't identify with, shows how later in the play this will be detrimental to him
• never leave a job till you're finished, remember that's


  willy(19) beginning of the first mobile concurrence, shows he still believes this, indicates to audience that this is a pivotal part of his personality and will continue throughout play- reasoning behind disliking biff being a quitter
• i got nothin' to give him, charley'

  'forget about him'

  'then what have i got to remember?'


  willy + charley(33) mobile concurrence, his intense focus of having something material to prove he was successful in life is countered by charley's rational presence, only serves to rile up willy and cause him to call charley 'disgusting
• that's just the way i'm bringing them up, ben - rugged, well-liked, all-around'


  willy(38) mobile concurrence, trying to show off his success to his older brother, also trying to adhere to the values he was taught as a child to have the boys reflect himself and the values he so intensely adheres to
• ... was rich! that's just the spirit i want to imbue them with! to walk into the jungle! i was right! i was right! i was right!


  willy(41) takes the words he's told and twists them in order to have them align to his vues and beliefs, uses this to enforce and heighten his thoughts, as proof that he was right
• gee, on the way home tonight i'd like to buy some seeds'

  'you wait, kid, before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and i'll raise some vegetables, a couple a chickens'


  willy(57 + 58) links to pastoral and outdated upbringing, never truly broke away from it when he moved into the urban setting, believes that he must have something in the ground to prove he did something with his life, link to original american dream
• and i was almost decided to go when i met a salesman in the parker house... when i saw that, i realised that selling was the greatest career a man could want. cause what could be more satisfying... to be remembered and loves and helped by so many different people'


  willy(66) explains his fixation on becoming a successful salesman stems from his admiration for dave singleman, took all the wrong desires of success and riches and admiration and believed they could only be achieved by selling
• i can't throw myself on my sons. i'm not a cripple'


  willy(71) refusal to acknowledge his mental inhibitions as he believes he hasn't been relying on his sons even though they pay for some of the bills after he has lost his original salary, his compulsion to be self-sufficient, doesn't want to rely on others as it seems to be a failure in his eyes
• it's who you know and the smile on you face! it's contacts, ben, contacts!... that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked'

  'and that's why when you get out on that field today it's important... and ben! when he walks into a business office his name will sound out like a bell and all the doors will open to him'


  willy(71) speaks to both ben and biff, delusions allow him to project the things he wished he experienced in work onto biff, the same well-likedness, his passionate intensity toward being successful (or at least having success in the family)
• you're comin' home this afternoon captain of the all-scholastic championship team of the city of new york'

  'this is the greatest day of his life'


  willy(73) mobile concurrence before going to ebbets field, complete confidence in biff's ability, once again deciding what will happen instead of saying it in a way that's encouraging and fatherly
• but sometimes, willy, it's better for a man to just walk away'

  'but if you can't walk away?'

  'i guess that's when it's tough'


  bernard + willy(79) outside charley's office, a successful younger man trying to give advice to willy, shows willy's stubborn, old-fashioned mindset as he believes hardwork and determination can get him through everything, but he has nothing left to work for, only his pride and distant dream of success
• a man can't go out the way he came in, ben, a man has got to add up to something'

  'oh, ben, that's the whole beauty of it! i see it like a diamond shining in the dark, hard and rough, that i can pick up and touch in my hand. not like - an appointment!...because he thinks i'm nothing, see, so he spites me. but the funeral. ben, that funeral will be massive!... he'll see what i am, ben! he's in for a shock, that boy!'


  willy(108) using his suicide as his final financial transaction, his final deal, in order to finally garner the respect and financial gain that he has been chasing after since he decided not to go to africa with ben, referring back to dave singleman's funeral- still deluding himself into believing he had as much importance and sway in the business as him, his role-model became the image he saw as himself
• isn't that - isn't that remarkable? biff - he likes me!'

  'oh, biff (staring wildly) he cried! cried to me! (he is choking with his love, and now cries his promise) that boy, that boy is going to be magnificent'


  willy(115) filtering out the words he doesn't want to hear from biff, only sees the tears shed by him as a sign of love- reinforces his decision to commit suicide as he sees how biff loves him, audience may have hope as it seems he has reached realisation of value of love over money, stuck in past when biff had a seemingly bright future (calls him 'boy')
• loves me. (wonderingly) always loved me. isn't that a remarkable thing? ben, he's worshipping me for it!'


  willy(115) alone on stage as others have left for bed (biff left house), repeating his earlier words but intensifying biff's feeling, 'likes'->'loves'->'worshipping', shows his deterioration as his pride is being bolstered by his own fractured mind, contributes to his passion toward committing suicide to give biff a good start in life
• (uttering a gasp of fear, whirling about as if to quiet her) sh! (he turns around as if to find his way; sounds, faces, voices, seem to be swarming in upon him and he flicks at them, crying,) sh! sh! (suddenly music, faint and high, stops him. it rises in intensity, almost to an unbearable scream. he goes up and down on his toes, and rushes all around the house.) shhh!'


  willy + sd(117) shows his final descent into mental fracture, as he attempts to silence linda from upstairs as he doesn't want to disappoint her or let her see him in this state of complete and utter failure, as he believes he's on the brink of success, music growing louder raises the tensions for the audience and symbolises his frantic thoughts
• nobody dast blame this man. you don't understand: willy was a salesman. and for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life... he's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. and when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. and then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished. nobody dast blame this man. a salesman is got to dream, boy. it comes with the territory'


  charley(120) speaking to biff in the requiem, gives willy a sort of redeeming quality as he explains the pains of the life of a salesman, miller uses him as a mouthpiece to show the audience that willy's demise wasn't completely his own fault- capitalism and society had a hand in it as they gave him the ideas, with which he became obsessed