please give some points that show willys insanity/ flashbacks
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Here are some quotes to support your points:
1. Willy says: "I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England," when explaining why they can't move to New York. This is just an illusion ... he's not vital in New England.
2.Willy thinks that his brother Ben made his fortune mining diamonds in Africa. "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!" It's clear that Ben's fortune was not made so simply, but Willy has this strange perception of how dreams come true.
3. Willy considers his own suicide and ultimately kills himself. He tells Charley, "After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive." To Willy, his life insurance is worth more than his life.
4. Like his brother Ben, Willy thinks he will find success on the frontier, and imagines building a house and planting a garden for his family. "Before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and I'll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens." Later in the play, on the way out of a restaurant, Willy asks a waiter where he can buy seeds for his garden. He says, "I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground." He's still under the illusion that he can somehow be a big success if he buys some seeds and plants a garden. He's losing all grip on reality and clutching to the last embers of hope in his imagination.
Here are some quotes to support your points:
1. Willy says: "I'm the New England man. I'm vital in New England," when explaining why they can't move to New York. This is just an illusion ... he's not vital in New England.
2.Willy thinks that his brother Ben made his fortune mining diamonds in Africa. "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!" It's clear that Ben's fortune was not made so simply, but Willy has this strange perception of how dreams come true.
3. Willy considers his own suicide and ultimately kills himself. He tells Charley, "After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive." To Willy, his life insurance is worth more than his life.
4. Like his brother Ben, Willy thinks he will find success on the frontier, and imagines building a house and planting a garden for his family. "Before it's all over we're gonna get a little place out in the country, and I'll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens." Later in the play, on the way out of a restaurant, Willy asks a waiter where he can buy seeds for his garden. He says, "I've got to get some seeds. I've got to get some seeds, right away. Nothing's planted. I don't have a thing in the ground." He's still under the illusion that he can somehow be a big success if he buys some seeds and plants a garden. He's losing all grip on reality and clutching to the last embers of hope in his imagination.
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