English Literature A Level

 1: "They don't need me in New York. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England." Act 1, Part 1, pg. 4  2: "I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that a criticism?" Act 1, Part 1, pg. 5  3: I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life." Act 1, Part 2, pg. 11 4: "probably congratulate [Biff] on [his] initiative" Act 1, Part 3, pg. 18 5: "the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates a personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want." Act 1, Part 3, pg. 21 6: "I'm very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don't seem to take to me." Act 1, Part 3, pg. 23 7: "when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was twenty-one I walked out. And by God I was rich." Act 1, Part 7, pg. 33 8: "Ne...

Quotations from critics in the 1950s. "The play explores the salesman idea of success with an angry but discerning eye." Miller: 'The trouble with Willy Loman is that he has tremendously powerful ideals...he is seeking for a kind of ecstasy in life. If Willy Loman had not had a very profound sense that his life as lived had left him hollow, he would have died contentedly polishing his car on some Sunday afternoon at a ripe old age. The fact is he has values. The fact that they cannot be realized is what is driving him mad.... 'It's obvious that Willy Loman can't be an average American man, at least from one point of view:  he kills himself..... Willy Loman is a person who embodies in him some of the most terrible conflicts running through the streets of America today. ....I was trying in Salesman to set forth what happens when a man does not have a grip on the forces of life and has no sense of the values which will lead him to that kind of a gr...