DOAS

Question 1

What are the quotes for DOAS Act 1? (43)

Answer 1

1. SD: “a melody is heard, played upon a flute”
2. SD: “it is small and fine,”
3. SD: “fragile-seeming home”
4. SD: “on a shelf over the bed a silver athletic trophy stands”
5. SD: “his exhaustion is apparent”
6. SD: “she more than loves him, she admires him,”
7. L: “You didn’t smash the car, did you?”
8. W: “I’m tired to death”
9. SD: “[she is taking off his shoes]”
10. W: “I have such thoughts, I have such strange thoughts”
11. W: “I’m vital in New England”
12. W: “I don’t want a change! I want Swiss cheese”
13. W: “… How can they whip cheese?”
14. SD: “he has succeeded less,”
15. H: “Something’s – happening to him. He – talks to himself”
16. B: “it’s a measly manner of existence”
17. B: “I’ve had twenty or thirty different kinds of jobs”
18. B: “I’m like a boy”
19. H: “But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely”
20. H: “now weren’t they gorgeous creatures?”
21. W: “Be liked and you will never want”
22. B: “when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. When I walked out I was twenty-one. And, by God, I was rich!”
23. L: “They got the biggest ads of any of them!”
24. L: “Well, net week you’ll do better”
25. L: “Will, darling, you’re the handsomest man in the world…”
26. “To me you are. (slight pause). The handsomest”
27. TW: “I love a lot of stockings”
28. L: “Just mending my stockings. They’re so expensive…”
29. W: “I won’t have you mending stockings in this house!”
30. C: “My wife bought them”
31. L: “You’re such a boy!”
32. L: “He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog”
33. L: “a lot of people think he’s lost his – balance”
34. L: “He’s dying, Biff”
35. L: “That all these accidents in the last year – weren’t – weren’t – accidents”
36. L: “behind the fuse box – it happened to fall out – was a length of rubber pipe – just short”
37. L: “I’m – I’m ashamed to”
38. W: “That is a one-million-dollar idea!”
39. W: “Million-dollar…”
40. W: “Will you stop!”
41. SD: “(He comes downstage into a golden pool of light)”
42. W: “Gee, look at the moon moving between the buildings!”
43. W: “He’s heading for a change”

Question 2

What are the quotes for DOAS Act 2? (30)

Answer 2

1. W: “I slept like a dead one”
2. W: “Bricks and windows”
3. W: “Windows and bricks”
4. L: “Nothing’ll grow any more”
5. W: “I think I’ll get one myself”
6. W: “I’m definitely going to get one”
7. W: “they’re working on a very big deal”
8. H: “this is not time for false pride, Willy”
9. W: “I – I just can’t work for you, Charley”
10. H: “Funny, y’know? … you end up worth more dead than alive”
11. C: “Willy, nobody’s, worth nothin’ dead… Did you hear what I said?”
12. H: “Strudel’s comin’”
13. H: “You want her?”
14. “Do you want her? She’s on call”
15. B: “How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? … I was a shipping clerk”
16. W: “But you were practically…”
17. W: “(wildly) Math, math, math!”
18. B: “never mind… he wouldn’t listen to you… I’m not going there”
19. B: “You- you gave her Mama’s stockings!”
20. W: “Here – here’s some more, I don’t need it any more. (after a slight pause) tell me – is there a seed store in the neighbourhood?”
21. W: “Oh, I’d better hurry. I’ve got to get some seeds. I’ve got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing’s planted. I don’t have a thing in the ground.”
22. L: “You’re not talking to him”
23. W: “But the funeral… Ben, that funeral will be massive!”
24. B: “I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody! That’s whose fault it is!”
25. B: “I had to be boss big shot in two weeks, and I’m through with it”
26. B: “It does take a great kind of man to crack the jungle”
27. B: “Time William, Time”
28. B: “One must go in to fetch a diamond out”
29. SD: “(there is the sound of a car starting and moving away at full speed)”
30. SD: “(as the car speeds off, the music crashed down in a frenzy of sound, … the music has developed into a dead march”

Question 3

What are the quotes for DOAS the Requiem? (3)

Answer 3

1. L: “I can’t understand it”
2. H: “I’m gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a good dream. It’s the only dream you can have – to come out number-one man”
3. L: “Forgive me, dear. I can’t cry… I can’t cry. … we’re free and clear. We’re free. we’re free… we’re free…”