Eric Houdek
1. Shell on the mattress analogy. (Willy p.41)(full quote)
Willy: What’s the mystery? 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!
2. Bird comment. ( Linda to Biff p.54)( full quote)
Linda: Biff, a man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.
3. JUNGLE (Ben's and Willy's response p.52) (full quote)
Ben, giving great weight to each word, and with a certain vicious audacity: William, when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. When I walked out I was twenty-one. And, by God, I was rich! He goes off into the darkeness around the right corner of the house.
Willy:…was rich! That’s just the spirit I want to imbue them with! To walk into a jungle! I was right! I was right! I was right!