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YOUR DISCOVERY TASKS
Task 9. Speak and Act
Here are lines taken from Act 1 of the play “Death of A Salesman”.
Internalize the lines by feeling for the characters. Practice with your group mates
and be ready to share with the class. You and your classmates will have to take
turns presenting.
Dialogue 1
Linda (trying to bring him out of the topic): Willy, dear, I got a new kind of
American-type cheese today. It’s whipped.
Willy: Why do you get American when I like Swiss?
Linda: I just thought you’d like a change ----
Willy : I don’t want change! I want Swiss cheese. Why am I always being
contradicted?
Linda (covering her mouth to suppress her laugh): I thought it would be a
surprise.
Willy: Why don’t you open a window in here, for God’s sake?
Linda (with infinite patience) : They’re all open dear.
Dialogue 2
BERNARD: Biff, where are you? You’re supposed to study with me today.
WILLY: Hey, looka Bernard. What’re you lookin’ so anemic about,
Bernard?
BERNARD: He’s gotta study Uncle Willy. He’s got Regents next week.
HAPPY (tauntingly spinning Bernard around): Let’s box Bernard!
BERNARD: Biff! (He gets away from Happy.) Listen, Biff, I heard Mr.
Birnbaum say that if you don’t start studying math he’s gonna flunk you,
and you won’t graduate. I heard him!
DRAFT
Dialogue 3
WILLY: You better study with him, Biff. Go ahead now.
BERNARD: I heard him!
BIFF: Oh, Pop, you didn’t see my sneakers! (he holds up a foot for Willy to
look at.)
WILLY: Hey, there’s a beautiful job of printing!
April 10, 2014
BERNARD (wiping his glasses): Just because he printed University of
Virginia on his sneakers doesn’t mean they’ve got to graduate him, Uncle
Willy!
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