She is teaching them that they are now old enough to respect their father. She is telling her son Biff and Happy that though Willy does not make a lot of money and is not a popular salesman, and he has been going through a rough patch. Linda, Willy Loman’s wife, speaks these words in the first act. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person.” He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. These lines are significant as they show a wrong example set by Willy about success. The world is compared to a jungle where success frames its own rules. He means that success does not come in fair games. When Ben argues with Biff, he pats him and says that he should not fight any stranger fairly. You’ll never get out of the jungle that way.”īen, the dead brother of Willy Loman, speaks these lines in the first act when he fights with Biff in Willy’s dream. These lines show that the father has filled his sons to be confident about their physical appearances instead of intelligence and hard work. He wants to convey this idea to his sons that the business world only pays attention to the individuals looking attractive. In Greek mythology, Adonis is a god of beauty and desire. His mind is filled with the notion that if people, especially his sons will succeed because they are handsome. Willy Loman speaks these lines when talking to Happy and Biff. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead.” “That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. This line is significant, as it shows Biff’s self-realization about wasting his life and yet doing nothing. He says that he has already decided not to waste his life in such petty jobs, but then he returns home, and it dawns upon that he has already wasted his life.
“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.”īiff speaks this line when talking with Happy about his realization that tending farms have given him nothing.
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