{"id":97,"date":"2008-10-15T20:53:40","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T00:53:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/15\/idea-and-metaphor-philosophical-statements-in-the-play\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T20:53:40","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T00:53:40","slug":"idea-and-metaphor-philosophical-statements-in-the-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/15\/idea-and-metaphor-philosophical-statements-in-the-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Idea and Metaphor- Philosophical Statements In The Play"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ERIC HOUDEK<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Willy: Without a penny to his name, three great universities are begging for him, and from there the sky&#8217;s the limit, becuse it&#8217;s not what you do, Ben.\u00a0 It&#8217;s who you know and the smile on your face!\u00a0 It&#8217;s contacts, Ben, contacts!(Page 86)<\/p>\n<p>Bernard: Yeah, I&#8217;m going.\u00a0 He takes the bottle.\u00a0 Thanks, Pop.\u00a0 <em>He picks up his rackets and bag<\/em>.\u00a0 Good-by Willy, and don&#8217;t worry about it.\u00a0 You know, &#8220;If at first you don&#8217;t succeed&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Willy: Yes I believe in that.<\/p>\n<p>Bernard: But sometimes, Willy, it&#8217;s better for a man just to walk away.<\/p>\n<p>Willy: Walk away?<\/p>\n<p>Bernard: That&#8217;s Right<\/p>\n<p>Willy: But what if you can&#8217;t walk away?<\/p>\n<p>Bernard, <em>after a slight pause<\/em>: I gues that&#8217;s when it&#8217;s tough.(Page 95)<\/p>\n<p>Charley:Willy, when&#8217;re you gonna realize that them things don&#8217;t mean anything?\u00a0 you named him Howard, but you can&#8217;t sell\u00a0that.\u00a0 the only thing you got in this world is what you can sell.\u00a0 And the funny thing is that you&#8217;re a salesman and don&#8217;t know that.(Page 97)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Willy, moving to the right: Funny, y&#8217;know?\u00a0 After all the highways, and the\u00a0trains, and the appointment, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.(Page\u00a098)<\/p>\n<p>Willy: A man can&#8217;t go out the way he came in, Ben, a man hast got to add up to something.(Page 125)<\/p>\n<p>Biff:\u00a0Pop, I&#8217;m a dime a dozen and so are you.(132)<\/p>\n<p>Charley: No man only needs a little salary.(137)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERIC HOUDEK \u00a0Willy: Without a penny to his name, three great universities are begging for him, and from there the sky&#8217;s the limit, becuse it&#8217;s not what you do, Ben.\u00a0 It&#8217;s who you know and the smile on your face!\u00a0 It&#8217;s contacts, Ben, contacts!(Page 86) Bernard: Yeah, I&#8217;m going.\u00a0 He takes the bottle.\u00a0 Thanks, Pop.\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/2008\/10\/15\/idea-and-metaphor-philosophical-statements-in-the-play\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Idea and Metaphor- Philosophical Statements In The Play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hodge-4-idea-and-metaphor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/script_analysis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}