Act Two: Key Events 9-10 Quotes
English Lit: AQA A Level Death of a Salesman, topic 11.2.11
Act Two: Key Events 9-10
Here are two quotations showing key events in Act Two:
Key quotation 9
- The climax of the play - the confrontation between Biff and Willy:
- “WILLY: [He is choking with his love, and now cries out his promise] That boy - that boy is going to be magnificent!"
- Willy’s realisation that Biff loves him leads to a moment of discovery and understanding. But almost immediately, Willy falls back on his old dreams for Biff, where his son is like Hercules - a conquering hero.
Key quotation 10
- Biff, who has achieved some level of self-recognition, sums up Willy’s tragic flaw - his blindness to who he really was.
- “He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.”
- Biff’s short, emphatic sentences, and his use of monosyllables and repetition help to give these lines their power.
Test yourself on Act Two: Key Events 9-10 Quotes
What does Willy claim Biff will be?
What realisation has made Willy so happy?
“WILLY: [He is choking with his love, and now cries out his promise] That boy - that boy is going to be magnificent!"