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- Sure he's gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn't he? Coach will probably congratulate you on your initiative.
- I got an awful scare. Nearly hit a kid in Yonkers. God!Why didn’t I go to Alaska with my brother Ben that time! Ben! That man was a genius, that man was success incarnate! What a mistake! He begged me to go.
- Is mother living with you?
- No she dies a long time ago
- Who died?
- This first panel is to illustrate the first version of Willy, Arthur Miller introduces in the play. This is Willy as a younger version of himself, who is most proud of his son Biff. The loving and doting father is the version I see here, Although Biff stole a ball from school, Willy makes no attempt to chastise him on the matter, instead he supports his son's decision because at this time Biff could do no wrong in his eyes.
- I’m talking about your father! There were promises made across this desk! You mustn’t tell me you’ve got people to see — I put thirty-four years into this firm, Howard, and now I can’t pay my insurance!
- In this panel we have elderly Willy having a conversation with his youngest son Happy. Throughout the play Arthur frequently takes us back to the thought of the jungle and how Willy's older brother became rich. This version of Willy is very regretful; his brother once offered him an opportunity to go into business together, but Willy declined. Had he taken his brother's offer he would not be faced with the financial burdens he's enduring now.
- In this Panel we have our first look at Willy having a mental illness, he shows signs of dementia. In this scene you're observing elderly Willy and his friend Charley talking, however Willy then goes in and out of conversation with Charley; because his brother Ben appears and those two start having conversation. Ultimately this confuses Charley because he cannot follow the conversation with Willy. I portray Willy in a happy manner because he's always excited by his brother.
- For this panel I choose to illustrate the frustrated and angry version of Willy and also entitled Willy. He tries to come to terms with his boss Howard about a position in NY but Howard denies him and says there is nothing open he said its a traveling job and you're a traveling man. The situation continues to spiral out of Willy's favor and thus he ends up losing his job despite time and reputation he's given the company. By the end of this conversation he portrays a defeated version of Willy.
- In this panel I choose to reflect upon the memory of Biff catching his father cheating with another woman in Boston. Now we have Willy the cheating husband but also the no longer idolized father by Biff. Benard stirred this memory up for Willy trying to uncover the truth as to why Biff feel apart after Boston. Willy however seems unable to face the fact that he is the reason Biff was changed forever and there relationship is strained.
- Willy's death sends a message that is strange to me, that message is when you're finally happy you can die. After that emotional display from Biff crying and telling his father he truly does love him, Willy becomes deeply moved and begins talking to his brother Ben' saying over and over Biff loves me , he cries for me and in the midst of feeling that joy he went a drive and killed himself. (A side note I am not entirely convinced it was suicide because he was finally feeling joy in my eyes his actions in this moment doesn't make sense).
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