Just as Willy is unable to understand or even love his. Things were sad on a lotta trains for months after that. Sadly, Miller seems to say, Americans (Biff, in this case) are made the victims of the countrys success. 'Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eight-four, into twenty of thirty different cities, and pick up a phone, and be remembered and loved and helped by so may different people? Do you know? When he died- and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going into Boston-when he died, Hundreds of salesman and buyers were at his funeral. And when I say that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. Winning the Pulitzer Prize in 1949, Death of a Salesman has to this day remained a classic. And old Dave, he'd go up to his room, y'understand, put on his green velvet slippers-I'll never forget-and pick up his phone and call the buyers, and without ever leaving his room, at the age of eighty-four, he made his living. And he was eighty-four years old, and he'd drummed merchandise in thirty-one states. Linda, Willys wife, stays for a moment longer at his gravestone. Im a dime a dozen, and so are you I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. And I was almost decided to go, when I met a salesman in the Parker House. I thought I'd go out with my older brother and try to locate him, and maybe settle in the North with the old man. We've got quite a little streak of self-reliance in our family. In the ensuing monologue Biff describes the sudden moment of self-realization which he experienced a day or two before: that working outdoors is what he loves. Oh, yeah, my father lived many years in Alaska. Study with Quizlet and memorize flashcards containing terms like Ungrateful bastards., Are they any worse than his sons, When he brought them business when he was young they were glad to see him. See, there were three gold strikes in one month in Alaska, and I felt like going out.
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