 | Arthur Miller - Drama - 1976 - 148 pages
...Don't say that! BIFF : He never knew who he was. CHARLEY, stopping Happy's movement and reply. To Biff: Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand:...smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're... | |
 | Gilbert Debusscher, Marc Maufort - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 280 pages
...personality is more important to him than his wares. Charley provides an explicit caption for the stereotype: ...Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there...smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're... | |
 | Peter Funke - Cross-cultural studies - 1989 - 334 pages
...consideration Charley's reply to Biffs statement: Charley [stopping Happy's movement and reply. To Biff]: Nobody dast blame this man. You don't understand;...smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're finished.... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...Gentiles See Cowper on The DEVIL; Geldof on FAME; Bible, Wilde on MARTRYDOM; Howe on PERSECUTION Salesmen For a salesman there is no rock bottom to the life....smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're... | |
 | Teri Kwal Gamble, Michael Gamble - Selling - 1992 - 160 pages
...others: . . . Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman there is no rock bottom to the life. He doesn't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or...smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949) As Linda, Willy's wife, noted,... | |
 | Arthur Miller - American drama - 1994 - 152 pages
...PLAYS I >« iltll 4 t I % ll« till 111 by Arthur Miller Tor a salesman, there is no rock bottom to life. He don't put a bolt to a nut. he don't tell...way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshirre. ' Willy Loman has been a salesman for 34 years. At 60, he is cast aside, his usefulness... | |
 | 106 pages
...blame Willy for being who he was - a salesman. A salesman, Charley maintains, is someone who dreams: "He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a...smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back - that's an earthquake." Biff points out the way Willy actually put more feeling into his carpentry... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...asked whether she knew she was in God's grace. Sales and Marketing 1 Nobody dast blame this man.... For a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life....smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back — that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat, and you're... | |
 | Terrence Real - Self-Help - 1999 - 390 pages
...are no guarantees for the future. At Willy 's funeral a friend defines him as simply "a salesman," a man, "way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back, that's an earthquake. And then you get yourself a couple of spots on your hat you're finished."... | |
 | Robert A. Brawer - Business & Economics - 2000 - 266 pages
...salespeople in our firm talking about it with reverence. Their identification with Willy Loman—the "man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine"—was absolute. "There but for the grace of God go I!" is still the prevailing sentiment... | |
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You don't understand: Willy was a salesman. And for a salesman, there is no rock bottom to the life. He don't put a bolt to a nut, he don't tell you the law or give you medicine. He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. 
