Now I'm older, I wanna be the same as you
What really gets to me is how there seems to be two people fighting over the life of this salesman.
There's the fading businessman who wants to be known and well-liked, and then there's the energetic young father who wants a nice house in the country with a garden and a big yard so he can play ball with his sons.
And he keeps switching which man he is. Both sides of him loves his son Biff, but his boy took after the fun-loving worker in his father and not the salesman. And the Salesman was so saddened by the fact that his son didn't want to go into sales. He thought he was being a horrible father and he didn't know why his son was like this when in fact his son was just doing what his father taught him.
I dunno, it just really gets to me that he cant understand where his son got these ideas of a farm out in the country. And he himself wasnt even going to go into sales in the first place. He was going to travel with his brother Ben.
"Seventeen years old when I went into that jungle. Three years later I came out, and by god, I was rich!"
But then he heard of a salesman. One who lived his life happily. One who had friends all over the country and when he died hundreds of people came from everywhere to be at his funeral. Just imagine that, he would say, in just one lifetime that man had made friends all over the country, impacted hundreds of lives. That's all the Salesman ever wanted.
To be everybody's friend and live happily.
The last scene of the play is a cemetary.
Where a mere five people look down at the salesman's grave.
There's the fading businessman who wants to be known and well-liked, and then there's the energetic young father who wants a nice house in the country with a garden and a big yard so he can play ball with his sons.
And he keeps switching which man he is. Both sides of him loves his son Biff, but his boy took after the fun-loving worker in his father and not the salesman. And the Salesman was so saddened by the fact that his son didn't want to go into sales. He thought he was being a horrible father and he didn't know why his son was like this when in fact his son was just doing what his father taught him.
I dunno, it just really gets to me that he cant understand where his son got these ideas of a farm out in the country. And he himself wasnt even going to go into sales in the first place. He was going to travel with his brother Ben.
"Seventeen years old when I went into that jungle. Three years later I came out, and by god, I was rich!"
But then he heard of a salesman. One who lived his life happily. One who had friends all over the country and when he died hundreds of people came from everywhere to be at his funeral. Just imagine that, he would say, in just one lifetime that man had made friends all over the country, impacted hundreds of lives. That's all the Salesman ever wanted.
To be everybody's friend and live happily.
The last scene of the play is a cemetary.
Where a mere five people look down at the salesman's grave.
posted by Mabreg at 2:08 PM
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