Thursday, February 26, 2009

Death of a salesman 2

Charley and Willy have a different relationship. They are continuously bickering. Everything that comes out of one of their mouths is always shot down by the other one. What they bicker about is never anything that is very important. Also, when Willy is talking to Charley, he always makes a point to make Charley feel bad about himself, in order to make Willy feel better about himself. For example, when Charley is asking Willy about his ceiling, Willy talks about how he put it up. Charley then goes on and says how he doesn't understand how someone could put of a ceiling. Before Charley could say something bad about Willy, Wily makes sure to make fun of Charley. He talks about how Charley is not a man because he does not know how to handle tools. This happens eariler when Charley is talking about his heartburn. Willy tries to make him feel stupid and tells him that he knows nothing about food or how to eat. Charley makes a sarcastic comment about how knows he has to eat through his mouth, and Willy got mad about him making a joke at what he said. Willy then went into further depth about how Willy doesn't know what he is talking about when it comes to food. All throughout their conversations they just bicker. You can tell that Willy is more dominant in the relationship because Charley is always afraid that Willy is insulted, while Willy openly pokes fun at Charley.

2 comments:

Dub D said...

Abbey, I like your comparison between Charley and Willy. I also like the way you compared the way Willy and Charlie arguments.

Erica Chavez said...

ABBEY =)

You made a lot of good points in here, and I like how you mentioned that whatever they fight about is never important and Willy always makes a point to try to make Charley feel bad. But, you didn't mention this and I thought it would be good to think about why he was so rude to Charley all the time. Willy is jealous of Charley because Charley is a respected business man, and people make fun of Willy in the business world.