Provide a quotation from the play to support your observations about each character’s values. Identify Act and page #
Quotations
Willy
“A man is not a piece of fruit”
Biff
“I’m 34 years old, I ought to be makin’ my future. That’s when I come running home. And now, I get here,
and I don’t know what to do with myself. I’ve always made a point not to waste my life, and every time I
come back here, I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life.”
Happy
“I mean, I can out box, out run, and out lift anybody in that store, and I have to take orders from those
common, petty sons-of-bitches”
Linda
He’s the dearest man in the world to me, and I won’t have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and
blue”
Charlie
“he don’t have to—he’s gonna do it”
Bernard
“He’s gotta study, Uncle Willy”
Dave
Singleman
“Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty
different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved, and helped by so many different
people?”
Ben
“Never fight fair with a stranger, boy—you’ll never get out of the jungle that way”