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Claire. Death of a Salesman.
 * **Please place your choice of the most important twenty quotations from the play that you have been assigned below. Remember to add your name and the title of the play before you make your list.**
 * 1) "They massacred the neighborhood." pg 17
 * 2) "To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off." pg 22
 * 3) "There's nothing more inspiring--or beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt." pg 22
 * 4) "Sometimes I just want to rip my shirt off in the middle of the store and outbox that goddamn merchandise manager." pg 24
 * 5) "You're both built like Adonises." pg 33
 * 6) "Why, boys, when I was seventeen I walked into the jungle, and when I was 21 I walked out. And by god I was rich." pg 39
 * 7) "The world in an oyster, but you can't crack it open on a mattress." pg 41
 * 8) "The woods are burning!" pg 41
 * 9) "When a deposit bottle is broken, you can't get your nickel back." pg 44
 * 10) "Spewing out that vomit from his mind." pg 56
 * 11) "Like a young god. Hercules--something like that." pg 68
 * 12) "They time those things. they time them so when you finally paid for them, they're used up." pg 73
 * 13) "He is only a little boat looking for a harbor." pg 76
 * 14) "There was respect, and comradeship and gratitude in it. Today, it's all cut and dried, and there's no chance for bringing friendship to bear--or personality." pg 81
 * 15) "I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard, and now I can't pay my insurance." pg 82
 * 16) "You can't eat an orange and throw the peel away." pg 82
 * 17) "It's who you know and the smile on your face! It's contacts, Ben, contacts!" pg 86
 * 18) "Funny, y'know? After all the highways and the trains and the appointments, and the years you end up worth more dead than alive." pg 98
 * 19) "Mrs. Forsythe, you've just seen a prince walk by." pg 114
 * 20) "Why does it take more guts to stand here the rest of my life ringing up to zero?" pg 126

Sarah, Death of a Salesman:
 * " The man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want." p33
 * "See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly loweing my ideals.." p24
 * "Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it's a measly manner of existence. To get on that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stick, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two-week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off. And always to have to get ahead of the next fella." p22
 * "Why shouldn't he talk to himself? Why? When he has to go to Charley and borrow fifty dollars a week and pretend to me that it's his pay? How long can that go on? How long? You see what I'm sitting here and waiting for? And you tell me he has no character? The man who never worked a day but for your benefit? When does he get the medal for that? p57
 * "we don't beling in this nuthouse of a city! We should be mixing cement on some open plain, or-- or carpenters. A carpenter is allowed to whistle!" p61
 * "Like a young god. Hercules--something like that. And the sun, the sun all around him." p68
 * "You wait, kid, before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and I'll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens..." p72
 * "Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it's broken! I'm always in a race with the junkyward!" p73
 * "he's only a little boat looking for a harbor." p76
 * "I cant take blood from a stone," p81
 * "you can't eat the orange and trhwo the peel away-- a man is not a piece of fruit!" p82
 * "Why must everybody like you? Who liked J.P. Morgan?" p97
 * " I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been! We've been talking in a dream for fifteen years." p104
 * "Ben, that funberal will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshite! All the old-timers with the strange license plates-- that boy will be thunder struck, Ben, because he never realized-- I am known!" p126
 * " And i never got anywhere because you blew me up so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody! That's whose fault it is!" p 131
 * " I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw-- the sky. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and hte food and time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am i trying to become what I don't want to be?" p132
 * "Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!" p132
 * "You were never anything but a hard-wroking drummer who landed in the ash can like all th erest of them! I;s one dollar an hour.." p132
 * "Forgive me, dear. I can't cry. I don't know what it is, but I can't cry." p139
 * "Willy was a salesman. And for the salesman, ther eis no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to the nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a sheshine. And when they start not smiling back-- that's an earthquake." p138

Amina- Death of a Salesman: 1. I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England. 2. He's liked, but he's not well liked. 3. The man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want. 4. The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he's rich! 5. I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person. 6. A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man. 7. Before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and I'll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens… 8. You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - a man is not a piece of fruit. 9. After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive. 10. I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. 11. 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. 12. Biff: Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you! Willie: I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman! 13. 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. He fought it out here, and this is where I'm gonna win it for him. 14. And when I saw that, I realized that selling was the greatest career a man could want. ’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? <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">15. I saw the things that I love in this world. The work and the food and the time to sit and smoke. And I looked at the pen and I thought, what the hell am I grabbing this for? Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be. . . when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">16. A diamond is hard and rough to the touch. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">17. He’s a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. . . A salesman is got to dream, boy. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">18. BIFF: Why? You’re making money, aren’t you? <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">HAPPY [moving about with ... plenty of women, and still, goddamnit, I’m lonely. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">19. WILLY: Sure, sure. I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, musn’t he? <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">BEN: What are you building? Lay your hand on it. Where is it? <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">WILLY [hesitantly]: That’s true, Linda, there’s nothing. <span style="font-family: Verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;">20. WILLY: Without a penny to his name, three great universities are begging from him, and from there the sky’s the limit, because it’s not what you do. It’s who you know and the smile on your face! It’s contacts, Ben, contacts! The whole wealth of Alaska passes over the lunch table at the Commodore Hotel, and that’s the wonder, the wonder of this country, that a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked! [He turns to Biff] And that’s why when you get out on that field today it’s important. Because thousands of people will be rooting for you and loving you. [To Ben, who has again begun to leave] And Ben! When he walks into a business office his name will sound out like a bell and all the doors will open to him! I’ve seen it, Ben. I’ve seen it a thousand times! You can’t feel it with your hand like timber, but it’s there.

Jay: The Cherry Orchard Act 1+2 Act 1 Act 2
 * 1) Lopakhin: I may be rich, I’ve made a lot of money, but if you think about it, analyze it, I’m a peasant through and through. [//Turning pages of the book//] Here I’ve been reading this book, and I didn’t understand a thing. Fell asleep over it. (p. 316)
 * 2) Lopakhin: There used to be only the gentry and the peasants living in the country, but now these summer people have appeared. All the towns, even the smallest ones, are surrounded by summer cottages. And it will be safe to say that in another twenty years these people will multiply enormously. (p.327)
 * 3) Yepikhodov: There’s a frost this morning – three degrees – and the cherry trees are in bloom. I cannot approve of our climate. Our climate is not exactly conducive. (p.316-317)
 * 4) Lopakhin: “this house, which is worthless…The only remarkable thing about this orchard is that it is very big. There’s a crop of berries every other year, and then you can’t get rid of them, nobody buys them.” (326)
 * 5) Mme Ranevskaya: “Cut it down? Forgive me, my dear, but you don’t know what you are talking about…one thing in the whole province that is interesting, not to say remarkable” (326)
 * 6) “she had nothing left, nothing…she always ordered the most expensive dishes and tipped each of the waiters a ruble” (320)
 * 7) Lyubov: "If I could cast off this heavy stone weighing on my breast and shoulders, if I could forget my past!" (330)
 * 8) “It would be good to receive a legacy from someone, good to marry our Anya to a very rich man, good to go to Yaroslav and try our luck with our aunt…She is very, very rich” (333)
 * 9) Optimistic without any reason to be so: “We’ll pay the interest, I’m certain of it…On my honor, I’ll swear by anything you like, the estate shall not be sold.” (335)
 * 1) “In the distance a row of telegraph poles, and far, far away, on the horizon, the faint outline of a large town, which is visible only in fine, clear weather” (336)
 * 2) “An old, lopsided, long-abandoned little chapel; near it a well, large stones that apparently were once tombstones, and an old bench.” (336)
 * 3) “We should stop admiring ourselves. We should just work, and that’s all…The great majority of the intelligentsia that I know seek nothing, do nothing, and as yet are incapable of work……They all look serious, have grim expressions, speak of weighty matters and philosophize; and meanwhile anyone can see that the workers eat abominably, sleep without pillows, thirty or forty to a room, and everywhere there are bed bugs, stench, dampness, and immorality…….It’s obvious that all our fine talk is merely to delude ourselves and others. (p.346)
 * 4) Trofimov: “all your ancestors were serf-owners, possessors of living souls. Don't you see that from every cherry tree, from every leaf and trunk, human begins are peering out at you? Don’t you hear their voices? To possess living souls--that has corrupted all of you" (350)
 * 5) Trofimov: "We are at least two hundred years behind the times, we have as yet absolutely nothing, we have no definite attitude toward the past, we only philosophize, complain of boredom, or drink vodka." (351)
 * 6) "It is quite clear that to begin to live we must first atone for the past, be done with it, and we can atone for it only by suffering, only by extraordinary, unceasing labor." (351)
 * 7) Varya: "Oh, Mama, dear, there's nothing int the house for teh servants to eat, and you give him [the stranger] a gold piece!" (349)
 * 8) Trofimov: "My idea of you, Yermolai Alekseich, is this: you're a rich man, you will soon be a millionaire. Just as the beast of prey, which devours everything that crosses its path, is necessary in the metabolic process, so are you necessary" (345)
 * 9) Lopakhin: "My father was a peasant, an idiot...all he did was beat me when he was drunk...As a matter of fact, I'm as big a blockhead and idiot as he was. I never learned anything, my handwriting's disgusting, I write like a pig--I'm ashamed to have people see it." (343)
 * 10) Firs: "I was already head footman when the Emancipation came. At that time I wouldn't consent to my freedom, I stayed with the masters...I remember, everyone was happy, but what they were happy about, they themselves didn't know" (344)
 * 11) Lopakhin: "Both the cherry orchard and the land must be leased for summer cottages...once you definitely decide on the cottages, you can riase as much money as you like, and then you are saved" Lyubov: "Cottages, summer people--forgive me, but it's so vulgar" (341)

Kylie- Cherry Orchard

1. Pishchik- “A hungry dog believes in nothing but meat…It’s the same with me-- I can think of nothing but money...”

2. Lyubov Andreyevna- “It was the wrong time to have the musicians, the wrong time to give the dance… Well, never mind…” (354)

3. Varya- “But why is Yepikhodov here? Who gave him permission to play billiards? I don’t understand these people…” (356-357)

4. Lyubov Andreyevna- “I was born here, my mother and father lived here, and my grandfather. I love this house, without the cherry orchard my life has no meaning for me, and if it must be sold, then sell me with the orchard…” (357)

5. Trofimov- “Whether or not the estate is sold today—does it really matter? That’s all done with long ago; there’s no turning back, the path is overgrown. Be calm, my dear. One must not deceive oneself; at least once in one’s life one ought to look the truth straight in the eye.” (357)

6. Lyubov Andreyevna- “If I could cast off this heavy stone weighing on my breast and shoulders, if I couldn’t forget the past.” (330)

7. Lyubov Andreyevna-“It’s a millstone around my neck, I’m sinking to the bottom with it, but I love that stone, I cannot live without it.” (358)

8. Firs- “I don’t feel well. In the old days we used to have generals, barons, admirals, dancing at our balls, but now we send for the post-office clerk and the stationmaster, and even they are none too eager to come.” (360)

9. Varya- “First you play billiards and break a cue, then you wander about the drawing room as though you were a guest.” (363)

10. Lopakhin- “The cherry orchard is now mine! Mine! Lord! God in heaven! The cherry orchard is mine! Tell me I’m drunk, out of my mind, that I imagine it…” (365)

11. Lopakhin- “ I bought the estate where my father and grandfather were slaves, where they weren’t even allowed in the kitchen…” (366)

12. Lopakhin- “[Picks up the keys, smiling tenderly.] She threw down the keys, wans to show that she’s not nistress here any more… [Jingles the keys.]” (366)

13. Lopakhin- “Hey, musicians, play, I want to hear you! Come on, everybody, and see how Yermolai Lopakhin will lay the ax to the cherry orchard, how the trees will fall to the ground! We’re going to build summer cottages, and our grandsons and great-grandsons will see a new life here…Music! Strike up!” (366)

14. [Varya takes the keys from her belt and throws them on the floor in the middle of the drawing room and goes out.] (365)

15. Anya- “Come with me, come, darling, we’ll go away from here!... We’ll plant a new orchard, more luxuriant than this one. You will see it and understand; an joy, quiet, deep joy, will sink into your soul, like the evening sun, and you will smile, Mama!” (367)

16. Lopakhin- “It’s October, yet it’s sunny and still outside, like summer. Good for building. [Looks at his watch, then calls though the door.] Bear in mind, ladies and gentlemen, only fourty-six minutes till train time! That means leaving for the station in twenty minutes. Better hurry up!” (368)

**Sophie - A Street Car Named Desire**
STANLEY QUOTES: BLANCHE QUOTES:
 * (Blanche: No, I — rarely touch it.) "Some people rarely touch it, but it touched them often."
 * "In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa."
 * "I don’t go in for that stuff ... compliments to women about their looks. I never met a dame yet didn’t know she was good looking or not without being told. And I’ve met some of them who give themselves credit for more than they’ve got."
 * "The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two or three dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But the town was too small for this to go on forever! And as time went by she became a town character. Regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts."
 * "Don't you ever talk that way to me. "Pig — Polack — disgusting — vulgar — greasy!" — them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's too much around here. What do you think you are, a pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said — "Every man's a King!! And I am the king around here, so don't forget it!"
 * "I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don't ever call me a Polack."
 * "When we first met, me and you, you thought I was common. How right you was, baby. I was common as dirt. You showed me the snapshot of the place with the columns. I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it, having them colored lights going! And wasn't we happy together, wasn't it all okay till she showed here? And wasn't we happy together? Wasn't it all okay till she showed here, hoity-toity, describin' me like a ape?"
 * "I've been on to you from the start! Not once did you pull any wool over this boy's eyes! You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light bulb with a paper lantern, and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt and you are the Queen of the Nile! Sitting on your throne and swilling down my liquor!"
 * "You know what luck is? Luck is believing you're lucky...To hold a front position in this rat-race you're got to believe you are lucky."
 * "But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!"
 * "I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is important I tell the truth, and this is the truth: I haven't cheated my sister or you or anyone else as long as I have lived."
 * "These are love-letters, yellowing with antiquity, all from one boy.....Poems a dead boy wrote. I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt me, but you can't! I'm not young and vulnerable any more. But my young husband was."
 * "I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action."
 * "He acts like an animal, has an animal's habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There's even something sub-human — something not quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something — ape-like about him, like one of those pictures I've seen in — anthropological studies. Thousands and thousands of years have passed him right by, and there he is — Stanley Kowalksi — survivor of the stone age, bearing the raw meat home from the kill in the jungle. And you — you here — waiting for him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you! That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!" (woohoo long quote)
 * "What I mean is — he thinks I'm sort of — prim and proper, you know! I want to deceive him enough to make him — want me."
 * "You're a natural gentleman, one of the very few that are left in the world. I don't want you to think that I am severe and old maid schoolteacherish or anything like that....I guess it's just that I have — old-fashioned ideals!"
 * "And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this — kitchen — candle."
 * (Mitch to Blanche) "It's dark in here....I don't think I ever seen you in the light....What it means is I've never had a real good look at you."
 * "I don't want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes, magic. I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things. I don't tell truths. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it!"
 * "Never inside, I didn't lie in my heart."
 * "But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty."

Eli: Significant Quotations in Streetcar Named Desire


 * "They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!"
 * "I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack."
 * SD: There is something about her uncertain manner that suggests a moth"
 * "It's hard to stay looking fresh in hot weather"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I’m not young and vulnerable any more.”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one!
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this kitchen candle.”
 * "I don't want realism--I want magic!
 * "I take it for granted that you still have sufficient memory of Belle Reve to find this place and these poker players impossible to live with"
 * "But, honey, you know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions, or she'll be lost"
 * "And for the last year or two she has been washed up like poison"
 * "But some things are not forgivable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable! It is the one unforgivable thing, in my opinion, and the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty."
 * "That's how I'll clear the table. Don't ever talk that way to me. "Pig--Polack--disgusting--vulgar--greasy!" Them kind of words have been on your tongue and your sister's tongue too much around here: What do you think you two are? A pair of queens? Remember what Huey Long said:--"Every man is a King!"--And I am the king around here, so don't you forget it!"
 * "I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that's a sing, then let me be damned for it! Don't turn the light on!"
 * "Take a look at yourself in that worn-out Mardi Gras outfit, rented for fifty cents from some rag-picker"
 * "<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers."
 * "I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is 50% illusion"
 * "What you are talking about is brutal desire. Just desire. The name of that rattletrap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another."
 * "Be comfortable. That's my motto up where I come from. You gonna shack up here? Well, I guess I'm gonna strike you as being the unrefined type, huh?"
 * "The blind are leading the blind!"
 * "I never met a dame yet that didn't know if she was good-looking or not without being told, and there's some of them that give themselves credit for more than they've got."


 * IMAGES OF INFLATION (DELUSION) IN THE PLAYS**


 * Sarah- A Streetcar Named Desire**
 * Blanche:
 * "Mr. Graves is the high school superintendent- he suggested I take a leave of absence." p12
 * " I bought this adorable little colored paper lantern at a Chinese shop on Bourbon. Put it over the light bulb!"....."I cant stand a naked bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or vulgar action." p38
 * "You know I went to Miami during the Christmas holidays?" ..."Well, I did. I took the trip as an investment, thinking I'd meet someone with a million dollars." p46
 * "I ran into Shep Huntleigh--I ran into him on Biscayne Boulevard on Christmas Eve about dusk... getting into his car--"..." p47
 * " I'm writing a letter to Shep. (picks up letter) "Darling Shep. I am spending the summer on the wing, making flying visits here and there. And who knows, perhaps I shall take a sudden notion to swoop down to Dallas! How would you feel about that? (Laughs nervously and brightly, touching her throat as if actually talking to Shep.)" p 52
 * "Well I must admit I love to be waited on" p56
 * "he thinks I'm sort of-- prim and proper, you know! (Laughs sharply( I want to deceive him just enough to make him-- want me..." p57
 * "We are going to be very bohemian. we are going to pretend that this is a little artist's cafe on the Left Bank in Paris!" p63
 * "I don't want realism. I want--magic!" p84
 * "Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I do misrepresent things to them. I don't tell the truth, I tell what ought to be the truth, And if that's a sin, then let me be damned for it! Don't turn the light on!" p84
 * (....Blanche is standing before dressing table, glass in hand. She is dressed in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown and a pair of scuffed slippers. She wears a rhinestone tiara in her disarranged hair. A mood of hysterical exhilaration has possessed her, and she fancies she hears applause and favorable compliments of her old friends at a party at Belle Reve." p88
 * " I received a telegram from an old admirer of mine... An Invitation... A cruise on the Caribbean on a yacht!" p89
 * "He returned with a box of roses to beg my forgiveness....I said to him, Thank you, but it was foolish of me to think that we could ever adapt outselves to each other. Our ways of life are too different..." p91
 * Stanley:
 * "Lie number one: All this squeamishness she puts on!-- you should just know the line she's been feeding to Mitch! He thought she had never been more than kissed by a fellow! You know Sister Blanche is no lily!" p70
 * "The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two or three dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But the town was too small for this to go on forever! And as time went by she became a town character. Regarded as not just different but downright loco-nuts." p71
 * Claire. A Streetcar Named Desire.**
 * "She looks as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party." pg 7
 * Blanche's veil..concealing her age. pg 8
 * "Removes a whiskey bottle and glass." pg 9
 * "I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it!" pg 15
 * Clothing, drink and bathing all images of delusion for Blanche
 * "Blanche carries a paper lantern in a paper bag." pg 32
 * "I can't stand a naked light bulb, anymore than I can stand a rude remark or a vulgar action." pg 38
 * Shep Huntleigh: "Texas is literally spouting gold in his pocket." pg 47
 * Blanche's letter writing is a deception
 * "Blanche is seated at table in living-room, and has just completed writing a letter. Her purse is open on the table beside her." pg 52
 * "Put a paper lantern over the light" pg 56
 * "Young, young, young, young--man! Has anyone ever told you that you look like a young prince out of the Arabian Nights?" (Blanche's mythologizing) pg 60
 * "That's the key to my trunk which I must soon be packing." pg 61
 * "We are going to be very bohemian. We are going to pretend that this is a little artists cafe on the Left Bank in Paris!" pg 63
 * "Lord and Lady of the House." pg 62

Kylie -- DOS 1. Willy- “In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. (16) 2. Biff- “Well, I borrowed it from the locker room.” (29) 3. Willy- “laughing with him at the theft: I want you to return that.” (30) 4. Willy- “that’s because he likes you. If somebody else took that ball there’d be an uproar. So what’s the report, boys, what’s the report?” (30) 5. Willy- What’re you talking about? With scholarships to three universities, they’re gonna flunk him?” (33) 6. Willy- “That’s why I think Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want.” (33) 7. Linda- “I’m fat. I’m very—foolish to look at Linda.” (37) 8. Willy- “On the road—on the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you.” (38) 9. “You’ll retire me for life on seventy goddam dollars a week? And your women and your car and your apartment, and you’ll retire me for life! Christ’s sake, I couldn’t get past Yonkers today! Where are you guys, were are you? The woods are burning! I can’t drive a car!” (41) 10. “A man who can’t handle tools is not a man. You’re disgusting.” (44) 11. Ben- “William, your being first-rate with your boys. Outstanding, manly chaps!” (52) 12. Willy- “I see great things for you kids, I think your troubles are over. “ (64) 13. Willy- “It’s not what you say, it’s how you say it—because personality always wins the day.” (65) 14. “His blue suit. He’s so handsome in that suit. He could a—anything in that suit!” (72) 15. Willy- “If I had forty dollars a week—that’s all I’d need. Forty dollars, Howard.” (81) 16. Howard- “ Kid, I cant take blood from a stone, I—“ (81) 17. Howard-“…Pull yourself together, kid, there’s people outside.” (84) 18. Willy- “ Sure, sure. I am building something with this firm, Ben, and if a man is building something he must be on the right track, mustn’t he?” (85) 19. Willy-“Yeah, heh? When this game is over, charley, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your face. They’ll be calling him another Red Grange. Twenty-five thousand a year.” (89) 20. Willy- “Yeah, Biff’s in. Working on a very big deal, Bernard.” (91)

Jay Death of a Salesman 1. Willy: “Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. There’s one thing about Biff---he’s not lazy” (16) 2. Willy: “Coach’ll probably congratulate you on your initiative! ... That’s because he likes you. If somebody else took that ball there’d be an uproar.” (30) 3. Willy: “Someday I’ll have my own business, and I’ll never have to leave home anymore...Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not—liked. He’s liked, but he’s not—well liked.” (30) 4. W: “Met the Mayor…He was sitting in the hotel lobby…And then he had coffee with me.” (31) 5. W: “And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England.” (31) 6. W: “ ‘cause one thing, boys: I have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England, and the cops protect it like their own.” (31) 7. W: “Oh, won’t that be something! Me comin’ into the Boston stores with you boys carryin’ my bags. What a sensation!” (31) 8. B: “You watch me, Pop, and when I take off my helmet, that means I’m breakin’ out. Then you watch me crash through that line!” (32) 9. W: “Bernard can get the best marks in school, y’understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y’understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him.” (33) 10. W: “That’s why I think Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead.” 11. W: “Be liked and you will never want.” 12. W: “I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. “Willy Loman is here!” That’s all they have to know, and I go right through.” 13. W: “Knocked ‘em cold in Providence, slaughtered ‘em in Boston” (33) 14. W: “I did five hundred gross in Providence and seven hundred gross in Boston…Well, no—it came to—roughly two hundred gross on the whole trip.” (35) 15. L: “They got the biggest ads of any of them!” W: “I know, it’s a fine machine” (36) 16. W: “I’m very well liked in Hartford. You know, the trouble is, Linda, people don’t seem to take to me.” (36) 17. W: “There’s nothing the matter with him[Biff]! You want him to be a worm like Bernard? He’s got spirit, personality…” (40) 18. W: “There was a man started with the clothes on his back and ended up with diamond mines! …The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked in to a jungle, and comes out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich! The world is an oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress!” (41) 19. W(to Charley): “A man who can’t handle tools is not a man. You’re disgusting.” (44) 20. W: “That’s just the way I’m bringin them up, Ben—rugged, well liked, all-around.” (49) 21. W: “That’s just the spirit I want to imbue them with! To walk into a jungle! I was right!” (52) 22. W: “He’s [Biff] heading for change. There’s no question, there simply are certain man that take longer to get—solidified.” (72) 23. W: “…on the way home tonight I’d like to buy some seeds…we’re gonna get a little place out in the country, and I’ll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens…” (72) 24. W: “Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken! I’m always in a race with the junkyard! …They time those things. They time them so you finally paid for them, they’re used up.” (73) 25. W: “I’m gonna knock Howard for a loop, kid. I’ll get an advance, and I’ll come home with a New York job. Godammit, now I’m gonna do it!” (74) 26. W: “Maybe beets would grow out of there” (75) 27. L: “Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.” (76) 28. W: “Your father came to me the day you were born and asked me what I thought of the name of Howard” (80) 29. W: “In those days there was personality in it…There was respect, and comradeship, and gratitude in it. Today, it’s all cut and dried, and there’s no chance for bringing friendship to bear—or personality…They don’t know me any more.” (81) 30. W: “You can’t eat the orange and throw the peel away—a man is not a piece of fruit!” (82) 31. W: “They’re working on a very big deal”…H: “This is no time for false pride, Willy.” (83) 32. W: “I can’t throw myself on my sons. I’m not a cripple!” (84) 33. W: “…from there the sky’s the limit, because it’s not what you do, Ben. It’s who you know and the smile on your face! It’s contacts, Ben, contacts!” (86) 34. W: “a man can end with diamonds here on the basis of being liked!” (86) 35. W: “when he walks into a business office his name will sound out like a bell and all the doors will open to him! I’ve seen it, Ben…You can’t feel it with your hand like timber, but it’s there!” (86) 36. W: “You’re comin’ home this afternoon captain of the All-Scholastic Championship Team of the City of New York.” (88) 37. W: “This is the greatest day of his life…When this game is over, Charley, you’ll be laughing out of the other side of your face.” (89) 38. W: “Bill Oliver…Called him [Biff] from the West. Long distance, carte blanche, special deliveries.” (92) 39. Bernard: “remember those sneakers with “University of Virginia” printed on them? He was so proud of those, wore them every day. And he took them down in the cellar, and burned them up in the furnace.” (94) 40. W: “I’m strapped…I was just fired…I named him. I named him Howard” (97) 41. W: “I always felt that if a man was impressive, and well-liked, that nothing—” (97)

Eli: Images of Delusion in The Cherry Orchard
 * Lyubov Andreyevna: "Cut it down? Forgive me, my dear, but you don't know what you are talking about."
 * Varya: "If only God would help us"
 * Gayev: "--and our business is in the hat. We'll pay the interest, I'm certain of it...On my honor, I'll swear by anything you like, the estate will not be sold"
 * LA: "Instead of going to see plays you ought to look at yourselves a little more often. How drab your lives are, how full of futile talk!"
 * G: "Tomorrow I must go to town. I've been promised an introduction to a certain general who might let us have a loan."
 * LA: "Now you want giants! They're good only in fairy tales, otherwise they're frightening"
 * Trofimov: "In all probability, the auction didn't take place"
 * LA: "What if it's only a dream!"
 * LA: "I couldn't look out the train window, I was crying so!"
 * G: "Dear, honored bookcase, I salute thy existence, which for over one hundred years has served the glorious ideals of goodness and justice; thy silent appeal to fruitful endeavor, unflaggin in the course of a hundred years, tearfully sustaining through generations of our family..."
 * Pishchik: "I've taken all the pills"
 * LA: "Look, our dead mother walks in the orchard...in a white dress! [//laughs with joy//] It is she!
 * G: "It would be good to receive a legacy from someone, good to marry our Anya to a very rich man, good to go to Yaroslav and try our luck with our aunt, the Countess. She is very, very rich, you know."
 * G: "cue ball to the center!"
 * Charlotta's magic tricks
 * V: "I'd go into a nunnery"


 * Claire- Symbols from The Cherry Orchard**
 * The nursery symbol of things not chancing. Fossil. Pg 315
 * Cherry trees/orchard symbol of inheritance (in bloom, frost, being cut down) throughout book but mentioned Pg 315
 * Time symbol of change and movement Pg 315
 * Keys symbol of old way of life, keeping of the house Pg 319
 * Railway symbol of social change Pg 325
 * Bookcase symbol of the past, representation of old way of life and family's refusal to change Pg 327
 * Old church is a symbol of old system left behind, run down Act II first page
 * Outline of city and telephone poles are symbols of threat and development of city and revolution
 * Billiard motif (references, images etc) symbol of old way of life
 * Billiard cue being broken iconoclastic symbol of aristocracy fading
 * Snap of the cord in the distance symbol of old way of life dying out
 * Chopping down of cherry trees symbol of cherry orchard and aristocracy dying

Sarah- Symbols from The Cherry Orchard

--No one knows what it is when we first hear it in Act Two, and when we last hear it, the only character onstage is in no position to comment. It is the sound of breaking string, an auditory symbol of forgetting. It first is heard in the play after Gayev gives a soliloquoy on the eternity of nature; Firs tells us it was heard before, around the time the serfs were freed (a seminal event in Russian history). It is last heard just as Firs, the old manservant who functions as the play's human connection to the past, passes away, and is juxtaposed against the sound of an axe striking a cherry tree. With its simple image of breaking line, the sound serves to unify the play's social allegory with its examination of memory, providing a more graphic counterpart to the Cherry Orchard's hovering, off-stage presence.
 * Breaking String
 * The bookcase- reveals how the family is stuck in the past and is unchanging,
 * Billiards= old aristocratic leisure that is not longer enjoyed--> aristocracy dying out
 * The keys at Barbara's waist symbolize her practicality and her power.
 * The cherry orchard symbolizes the old social order, the aristocratic home, and its destruction symbolizes change.
 * Firs himself is a figure of time;
 * Anya is a figure of hope.
 * Railway- symbol of change, modernity, development


 * Sophie- Symbols from Death of a Salesman**
 * The stockings (the lover vs. Linda)
 * Seeds (planting things that aren't going to grow in his lifetime, etc)
 * Alaska, Africa, the new world (opportunity, which Willy never took)
 * Diamonds (want of something material to represent his success, or lack there of in this case-->life insurance)
 * the rubber hose (reality, Willy's want to cheat life)

Eli - DoS Symbols (won't mention the ones Sophie mentioned)
 * "The woods are burning!" (life closing in on willy)
 * Cars (symbol of escape)
 * The road (symbol of life within capitalism)
 * Howard's tape recorder (symbol of changes in business)
 * Trophy (symbol of inflation)
 * Sound of the flute (symbol of the pure American dream)
 * U of Virginia shoes/burning of (symbol of the ideal Biff has of Willy and the eventual destruction of that ideal)
 * Stolen lumber (symbol ofWilly's corruption of the American Dream)
 * Tennis rackets (symbols of Bernard's success)
 * The American West (symbol of Biff's potential--where he was happy)
 * Comparison of man to fruit (Willy's inability to accept that business no longer functions solely on personality)

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