Hieu Nguyen

Death of a salesman

Assignment 4:

“Father was a very great and a very wild-hearted man. We would start in Boston, and he’s toss the whole family into the wagon, and then he’s drive the team right across the country; through Ohio, and Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, and all the Western states. And we’d stop in the town and sell the flutes that he’d made on the way. Great inventor, Father. With one gadget he made more in a week than a man like you could make in a lifetime.”

_This quote is from a conversation between Willy and his brother Ben. They are talking about their father, what he was in person, what did he do…
_ I think this quote is important because Willy does not know anything about his father and he does not know how his father started his business. Maybe it is the point that Willy cannot get a fine job for him or he does not have any experiences to teach Biff and it led him to no where.
_ Their father left and Willy was a baby and Ben was the only one who looking for him. Their father was a wild-heart man, he can make more gadgets in a week than Willy can make in lifetime.
_ I think this quote is connects to “A character’s growth or change” because it tells about how Willy’s dad was doing on his business life.

Question: Why do you think his father left away?

Assignment 5:

Gee, as you can see, I did it all only for the boys. But now I am almost seventy and I am getting exhausted. The only wish that I want is to see my two boys success in their life, get a good job and born me kids. But sometimes I think of myself, did I do a good job of a dad? Maybe Biff is like that because I did not teach him all the way. Sometimes, I really mean but I did that just because of them, when ever I do anything I just think for them. And like what Linda said “Biff, I swear to God!