Rachel, Christina, Mason, and Brandon The Modern Tragedy Rachel, Christina, Mason, and Brandon

Tragic Hero A tragic hero is a man of noble stature and His own destruction is for a greater cause. “You mean… your sister’s school money…you used that too…Walter?... Yessss! All of it… it’s all gone…”(pg.86) “I don’t want you to represent us. I’ve been meaning to tell you for a long time now. Howard, are you firing me? I think you need a good long rest, Willy.”(pg.83)

Walter’s Tragic Flaw “…I’m thirty-five years old; I’ve been married eleven years and I got a boy who sleeps in the living room-and all I got to give him is the stories about how rich white people live.” (RS, p.11) “Something eating you up like a crazy man. Something more than me not giving you this money. The past few years I have been watching it happen to you. You get all nervous acting and kind of wild in the eyes.” (RS, p.40) “Once upon a time freedom used to be life-now it’s money.” (RS, p. 41) “You teach him good. Like Willy Harris taught you. You show where our five generations done come to. (RS, p. 95) “… You know it’s all divided up. Life is. Sure enough. Between the takers and the ‘tooken’.” (RS p. 95)

Willy’s Tragic Flaw “ He’s liked, but he’s not- well liked.” “The man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead.” “…people don’t seem to take me…. I know it when I walk in. They seem to laugh at me.” “He’s the man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and shoeshine.”

What mistakes do they make? “Life just like it is. Who gets and who don’t get.” RS (pg.95) Mama’s talk to Beneatha “There is only one large circle that we march in, around and around, each with our own little picture in front of us, our own little mirage that we think is the future.” RS (pg.89) “I’ll see him in the morning…” DS (pg.8)

Fall From Grace Walter loses all the money. Willy attempts suicide. “If I had gone the other way over the white line I might have killed someone.” Willy cheats on Linda. “Cause I get so lonely- especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to.”