"GOLDEN LINE" Death Of A Salesman (Act 2)

"I put thirty-four years into this firm." "You can't eat the orange and throw the peel away - man is not a piece of fruit!" Act 2. Pg. 61, 62 (Willy)

Willy has worked for Howard's company all his life. He's turning old and he can't compete with other salesman. Howard is casting him off because he doesn't make lots of money. After hearing Linda's speech early in the morning. Willy heads out to meet Howard. He has got some personality in him. He's arguing with his employer that there must a responsible since he gave his thirty-four years working for the company and now the company have to take care of him and give him a stand in work. He feels that he should have earn some awards and that they can't just leave him after years he has worked for them. Willy has even recall his relationship between him and Howard's father but it gets him nowhere. 

"GOLDEN LINE" Death Of A Salesman (Act 1)

"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!The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!""    Act I

I chose that quote to be my golden line because it is repeated so many times. Willy is the one who use the line first, but Ben repeats it lots of time throughout the play. First, it clearly shows that Ben is always appear in Willy's head, Ben is only the figment of Willy's imagination. Willy has always want to be success, to be rich. He's a talented carpenter but he believes salesman make most money. He wants his sons to become salesman just like him. But things don't go his way. Willy said that the world is like an oyster, there's a lot of opportunities, as an oyster contains a pearl. But it's hard to get it, we can't accomplish anything by sleeping, being lazy.