thursday’s post

well its now at the end of the play.so here’s the last bit.

willy and biff have come to a minor understanding.biff is going to leave and willy is going to go on with living with linda and work out his problems.biff i think, is trying to help his parents or at least his dad,so he can stop worrying about biff’s life.

then they both have a father-son bonding moment!willy realizes that biff doesn’t hate him for cheating and biff finally told his dad that he can’t be the business man that willy wants him to be.but that he’s just trying to live his life as happy as he can.willy’s realization causes him to re consider living.

but then ben comes back.ben is trying to tell willy to hurry up and that they have to go,so willy WAS trying to die,but now that he and biff are ok,he wants to stay and he kind of blows ben off.and linda is trying to get him to sleep and it will be all over.

but willy doesn’t go.willy goes out for a walk and gets confused and wanders out in to the street (i think)(this is what i’m gathering happens artistically based on what the stage directions say)where he gets hit by a car and dies.which is so sad because he and biff were finally ok!

and finally the last scene,the funeral.

willy-dead.

linda-is now empty and she’s really messed up i think because a)she never knew about the cheating and b) everything willy was worried over is finally ok.

biff-i thnk is just content about life after he and his father cleared everything up.and is now just morning and living.

happy-is going to end up just like his father as i predicted.biff will be ben and happy will be willy.there is no way around it,history will repeat it’s self.

wednesday’s post

willy comes back into the present,and he i think at first has a sort of epiphany,which i thought at first was a good epiphany.i though he was finally going to forgive biff for catching him and he was going to make a garden and live his life happily,and that would be it.

but when willy starts planting the seeds and biff realizes what he’s doing,biff freaks out and runs to his dad.willy is outside talking to ben,which i don’t think is a very good thing in this case.willy is talking about this $20,000 deal with ben.but how would ben be able to help him at all? ben’s dead,he’s only alive to willy in willy’s head.

but willy feels alot of regret about linda,because she’s gone thorugh alot and she’s always stood by him.

i was really confused at first about this whole part with ben and willy.then ben said policy, and it clicked that willy is planning on killing himself and giving the money to his family to live off of.

ben brings up a good point though.biff will see willy as a coward.how at this point in this life something has to happen.either he dies and he’s remembered as a coward and biff still hates him, or he goes on living and solves things with his son.

biff does try to help his father now.he comes and tries to talk to willy.and tell him how he feels and let willy know what he’s going to do with the rest of his life.but willy still thinks biff hates him for whats happened with his future.when biff is trying to tell him that its not his fault.

tuesday’s post

so we find out that biff and happy’s buisness plan has fallen though.that there is no way to work out this great scheme to get tons of money for the family.biff is really torn up about it.i’m sure he feels like he’s letting everyone down,and he’s afraid for his dad’s sanity.he knows this can tip him off and make him kinda go crazy,which it does.

willy starts freaking out and is in his own head,when biff was graduation and he found out that biff had failed math.this part is interesting and confusing,because happy and biff are in the present time trying to explain to willy what happened and trying to calm him down.while willy is way back in the past listening to the people around him there in his head and not biff and happy.

biff really tries to tell willy what is happening with him and how he feels and why he thinks he failed,but willy isn’t listening.willy’s dream was a long time ago to work hard and watch his sons be these poster children of success.now that biff has come to realise that he can’t do that,willy’s disappointed and is blaming biff and himself.

at the same time,we learn more about what has happened between willy and biff.willy had an affair when biff came to tell him about failiing math,and biff found out about the woman,and willy has thought biff hated him ever since,whether he does or not we don’t yet know.

monday's post

so i left off with willy and howard,and willy was begging for his job.howard finally let willy go,which i kinda agree with.willy needs that break,but it just sucks that he can't pay for everything.

then willy goes back into his head and he talks with ben.this part is like what he wished happened,he's looking back on an opportunity that ben had for him,and he's thinking how he might have been better off with working with ben.which he might have,but he let his wife talk him out of it.i think willy is now regretting a lot of his life because he thinks it would have changed his current state.

i think ben is the man willy has always wanted to be.and now willy is talking to ben in his head when he really feels down.ben is like his constant comparison to himself.

plus i think willy compares himself to biff too.how he kinda failed biff,because he pressured him into playing this really big football game basically for his future.and we learn later on why biff and willy have so many problems.something happened when biff failed math that caused willy to do or say something that caused biff to not go to summer school.i really want to know what exactly happened.

then willy goes back to the present and goes to charley's house to get money,and he talks to bernard.who again i think he compares himself and his sons especially to.bernard was always smart and worked to get very successful.willy thinks that biff could have been as successful as bernard.especially because they were so close.

 

charley is what willy wanted to be with his normal job,just this easy life,after he works hard for a long time he can retire and just live an easier life.rather than have financial problems and have to ask for money weekly.but to have the freedom to have money to give out.

 

then the family has their dinner.happy i think is the one loman boy that can support himself and possibly his family if he had to.or the family history could repeat its self.happy going to support his own family and work to support his parents,working himself to the bone like willy does.while biff ends up traveling and enjoying life like ben does.

thursday's participation

pg-100

today we had our speed through.failed the first time around.which is so frustrating because i had the lines!!!but then emily and matt gave us a 2nd try,and passed.looking forward to the tech weeks coming up.and i'm going to post all my journals because my blogger has finally started to work again.

wednesday's participation

pg-100

so today we took the freshman picture.yay kneeling in wet mudd and our fail of a pyramid.then we worked in the pit sorting wood and getting plenty of splinters.which wasnt all that bad,besides the fact that the stage is 1 million degrees when your working.

tuesday participation

pg-100

today we really only went over schedual.which i now have all fixed in my phone/calender agenda thing.and today we continued our debate about musical theatre as art.and even though i was told not to talk at one point because of my voice,i still participated in the debate.