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Death of a Salesman

Act Two Review

1. Why is it so important to Willy to try to plant something in the yard, to get something to grow?
(The symbolism of the seeds…..)

2. How does Willy’s dream that he describes (immediately after talking about buying seeds) echo
the dreams of Biff? pg 52

3. What accomplishment are Willy and Linda on the cusp of achieving, with one more payment to
go?—pg 53

4. What does Howard, who’s in his 30’s, keep calling Willy, who is 60-something years old, and why
is this ironic? How does the way Howard treats Willy make you feel?

5. Who was Dave Singleman and why was he so important and influential to Willy?

6. What does Willy mean when he says you can’t eat the orange and throw away the peel and that a
man is not a piece of fruit?—pg 82

7. Why is Willy fired? What does Howard suggest Willy ought to do in the meantime for financial
support, and why does Willy object to this idea?—pg 63

8. In the scene with Charley, Willy has ONE MORE CHANCE to get his life together, but doesn’t.
Why? How is Charley’s view of what a salesman needs different from Willy’s view? (“The only
thing got in this world is what you sell. And the funny thing is that you’re a salesman, and you
don’t know that.”—pg 76)

9. What does this mean, “An individual is worth more dead than alive”?—pg 77
10. Why did Biff go to Boston? What does he discover when he sees The Woman?

11. Why is so important for Willy, now, to get something in the ground, to make it grow?

12. What is Willy contemplating, and what is he afraid of: the fear he hears voiced through Ben?

13. Biff and Willy’s confrontation:

When Biff exclaims that he’s nothing, and they can’t ever expect him to be any more, and he starts crying,
what revelation does Willy have?

14. Whereas Willy had previously feared that Biff would hate him for committing suicide to get the
insurance money, now that Willy has been assured that Biff loves him, what does Willy believe
that Biff will feel toward him, as he says to Ben?

15. To what moment does Willy mentally drift back as he goes to get the car to crash it, so he make
sure the insurance money will go to his sons so they can become “great”?

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