The Death Of a Salesman Act 1 Quote

BIFF: Why? You’re making money, aren’t you? 

HAPPY (moving about with energy, expressiveness): All I can do

now is wait for the merchandise manager to die. And suppose I get to be merchandise manager? He’s a good friend of mine, and he just built a terrific estate on Long Island. And he lived there about two months and sold it, and now he’s building an- other one. He can’t enjoy it once it’s finished. And I know that’s just what I would do. I don’t know what the hell I’m workin’ for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment — all alone. And I think of the rent I’m paying. And it’s crazy. But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely.

As I was reading through Act 1 of The Death of a Salesman, I couldn't stop thinking how Happy is so similar to Jay Gatsby. In this quote we can see that Happy has wealth, a good house, a good car, and women, but he is not satisfied with his life. Jay Gatsby is like that too, his dream was to be rich and eventually have Daisy. However, when he got all of them, he still doesn't feel satisfied with everything. He still doesn't feel happy with himself. Just like Jay Gatsby, although Happy earned a lot of money, an d have a good home, car and women, he feels lonely and hallow inside. 

Analysis Death of Salesman

HAPPY [moving about with energy, expressiveness]: All I can do now is wait for the merchandise manager to die. And suppose I get to be merchandise manager? He’s a good friend of mine, and he just built a terrific estate on Long Island. And he lived there about two months and sold it, and now he’s building another one. He can’t enjoy it once it’s finished. And I know that’s just what I’d do. I don’t know what the hell I’m workin’ for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment—all alone. And I think of the rent I’m paying. And it’s crazy. But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, plenty of women, and still, goddamnit, I’m lonely." (Act 1)
Both stories share this same theme, the characters have so much already but keep on striving to get more. Happy has a lot of things, money, a job, women, but he still wants a better life, a better job. Gatsby also has a lot, he has money, parties, but he still wants more, he wants Daisy. 

Death of Salesman/G Gatsby

WILLY: Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such — personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. There’s one thing about Biff — he’s not lazy.  (Act 1)

This relates to The Great Gatsby in two ways. America is the land of the great, dream land for prosperity and new future. Loman is similar to Gatsby, gets lost chasing Daisy.

Death of Salesman v.s. Gatsby Quote

"WILLY: Why did he come home? I would like to know what
brought him home.
LINDA: I don’t know. I think he’s still lost, Willy. I think he’s
very lost.
WILLY: Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a
young man with such — personal attractiveness, gets lost. And
such a hard worker. There’s one thing about Biff — he’s not
lazy.
LINDA: Never.
WILLY (with pity and resolve): I’ll see him in the morning; I’ll
have a nice talk with him. I’ll get him a job selling. He could be
big in no time. My God! Remember how they used to follow
him around in high school? When he smiled at one of them
their faces lit up. When he walked down the street... (He loses
himself in reminiscences.)"

This quote suggests that the Willy thinks if a person works hard and is attractive, he will get rich. Like in The Great Gatsby, Gatsby's father believed that Gatsby was destined to be rich because of his hard-working and self-improving attitude. Plus Gatsby is also handsome. This shows that the characters all believed in the American dream. They all thought achieving one's goal (in this case, to be rich) requires only one's own effort; in other words, the concept of the self-made man. 

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"BIFF: Why? You’re making money, aren’t you?

HAPPY [moving about with energy, expressiveness]: All I can do now is wait for the merchandise manager to die. And suppose I get to be merchandise manager? He’s a good friend of mine, and he just built a terrific estate on Long Island. And he lived there about two months and sold it, and now he’s building another one. He can’t enjoy it once it’s finished. And I know that’s just what I’d do. I don’t know what the hell I’m workin’ for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment—all alone. And I think of the rent I’m paying. And it’s crazy. But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, plenty of women, and still, goddamnit, I’m lonely." (Act 1)

Although Happy has accumulated a substantial amount of money and been surrounded by girl, it seems like it's not really what he wants. We can compare his situation to Gatsby's situation. Gatsby's rich in terms of the money and physical assets he had, however, he's missing a lot in terms of the spirit part, and the spirit part of his life, which would be being with daisy, is what he's after.

Death of a Salesman Analysis quote

WILLY: You and Hap and I, and I’ll show you all the towns.
America is full of beautiful towns and fine, upstanding people.
And  they  know  me,  boys,  they  know  me  up  and  down  New
England.  The finest people. And when I bring you fellas up, there’ll be open sesame for all of us, ‘cause one thing, boys: I
have friends. I can park my car in any street in New England,
and the cops protect it like their own. This summer, heh?
BIFF AND HAPPY (together): Yeah! You bet!


This quote aligns with The Great Gatsby because it talks about the American dream. Willy dreams of becoming successful alongside Biff and Happy, and associates his dream with America, hence "the American dream".

The Death of a Salesman

BIFF: There’s one or two other things depressing him, Happy. 

HAPPY: What do you mean? 

BIFF: Never mind. Just don’t lay it all to me. 

HAPPY: But I think if you just got started — I mean — is there any future for you out there? 

BIFF: I tell ya, Hap, I don’t know what the future is. I don’t know— what I’m supposed to want.

BIFF is just like Gatsby in "The Great Gatsby". Gatsby is lost and uncertain what to do after Daisy choose Tom over him. He insists to stay in the town and prays for would come back after he killed Myrtle. Just like BIFF, he can't get any job. He doesn't know what to do. No matter how hard he tried, he can never get a job. He is depressed. He doesn't what is the future anymore.

Act I Quote

Happy: "I don’t know what the hell I’m workin’ for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment — all alone. And I think of the rent I’m paying. And it’s crazy. But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely." (p.12?)

Thematically I think this quote relates to how in the Great Gatsby, all the characters had a dream, but they were never fully satisfied with what they had or achieved. Though what they've wanted might be simple or broad, once they've achieved it doesn't always mean they'll be satisfied and live happily ever after. For example, in the end of the Great Gatsby, Tom finally got rid of Jay and reunited with Daisy, but the last scene didn't seem very pleasant. All their dreams were different and decently wealthy, however, they still fell empty. Similar to Happy, he's got what he wanted but he's not content.

Death of a Salesman: Act One - quote by Tony

"I think I’ll go to see him. If I could get ten thousand or even seven or eight thousand dollars I could buy a beautiful ranch." -Biff

Biff is an uncertain man, he jumped from one job to the other after finishing highschool. His father Willy complains how Biff is unaccomplished and aimless. Biff has an idea in his life: since he is currently working in the farms and ranches out in the West, he thought what about owning one of those ranches? His past employer, Oliver, mentioned about helping him out when in need. So the idea is to ask Oliver for loans to give Biff a kickstart on his dream life. Just like The Great Gatsby, the theme of this play is American dreams. By taking a risk Biff is willing to obtain the dream life he had been sought of. Just like Jay Gatsby involving in the shady bootlegging business.

WILLY: How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? In the beginning, when he was young, I thought, well, a
young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But it’s more than ten years now and he has yet to
make thirty-five dollars a week!
LINDA: He’s finding himself, Willy.
WILLY: Not finding yourself at the age of thirty-four is a disgrace!

In this quote, willy is looking down on Biff because he doesn't make as much money as Willy thinks he should. This happens in The Great Gatsby too, when the elite class in East Egg don't see the lower class people as equals

Death of a Salesman Act 1

"WILLY: Bigger than Uncle Charley! Because Charley is not —

liked. He’s liked, but he’s not — well liked.

..

WILLY: Bernard is not well liked, is he? BIFF: He’s liked, but he’s not well liked.

WILLY: That’s just what I mean. Bernard can get the best marks in school, y’understand, but when he gets out in the business world, y’understand, you are going to be five times ahead of him."

In the quotation, it shows how Willy keep on emphasizing how important it is to be 'well liked.' He thinks if your well liked, then you will be successful and pass this idea to his sons. This links to Great Gatsby of how in the upper class world, everyone is trying to get attention and be 'well liked'. For example Daisy spends most of her time trying to get attention and be popular. 

Death of a Salesman Quote

BIFF: Well, I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up. Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it’s a measly manner of existence. To get on 
that subway on the hot mornings in summer. To devote your whole life to keeping stock, or making phone calls, or selling or buying. To suffer fifty weeks of the year for the sake of a two week vacation, when all you really desire is to be outdoors, with your shirt off.

The reason that Biff done all those works is he want to be success just like what his dad did. Biff had try various of works and is very hardworking; Just like what The Great Gatsby had mentioned, people around that era want to gain money and fame. But even Biff had try so hard to be like his father, he didn't success.

Death of a Salesman Brandon Quotation

WILLY (with wonder): I was driving along, you understand? And I
was fine. I was even observing the scenery. You can imagine,
me looking at scenery, on the road every week of my life. But
it’s so beautiful up there, Linda, the trees are so thick, and the
sun is warm. I opened the windshield and just let the warm air
bathe over me. And then all of a sudden I’m goin’ off the road!
I’m tellin’ya, I absolutely forgot I was driving. If I’d’ve gone
the other way over the white line I might’ve killed somebody.
So I went on again — and five minutes later I’m dreamin’
again, and I nearly... (He presses two fingers against his eyes.) I
have such thoughts, I have such strange thoughts.



This quotation shows the different way of enjoying life than the people in Great Gatsby. People in The Great Gatsby enjoy their life by lavish parties and luxurious lifestyles, whereas right here, Willy is enjoying the simple scenery, the fundamental aspects people don't ever notice as people take it for granted. The awestruck scenery is breath taking as he suddenly realizes the scene he normally passes every day, is absolutely beautiful. Both the stories have things the characters live their life for, and they are different aspects of life, one being the natural beauty in this world and one being the materialistic aspect of life.

Death of Salesman quote

"WILLY: How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? In the beginning, when
he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But it’s more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week! "

This quote reflected the "American dream" in the 1920s: earning lots of money. The Great Gatsby also mentioned about how people in that era tried urgently to earn money and fame. I think in this quote, Willy is like Tom in the degree that disgracing people who don't have any physucal accomplishments in their life.

Death of Salesman: Willy versus Gatsby

WILLY: No, I see everything. I came back ten miles an hour. It took me nearly four hours from Yonkers.
LINDA (resigned): Well, you’ll just have to take a rest, Willy, you can’t continue this way.
WILLY: I just got back from Florida.
LINDA: But you didn’t rest your mind. Your mind is overactive,
and the mind is what counts, dear.
WILLY: I’ll start out in the morning. Maybe I’ll feel better in the
morning. (She is taking off his shoes.) These goddam arch sup-
ports are killing me.



By looking at this conversation, we know that even though Willy is old, he still remains his ambition of making as much money as he can to support his family. This scenario is similar to "The Great Gatsby," in which Gatsby also has ambition to reach perfection; however, Willy and Gatsby are focusing on different accomplishments. Willy has been trying to acquire affluence not only because he wants to support his family but also because he wants to be a role model of his children; on the other hand, even though Gatsby was poor when he was young, he eventually becomes rich by dealing with illegal business, and Gatsby has been trying to get Daisy, which becomes his motivation of being rich. In conclusion, Willy is trying to reach financial perfection, while Gatsby is trying to reach sexual perfection. 

Death of a Salesman Quote

WILLY: Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You
finally own it, and there’s nobody to live in it.
LINDA: Well, dear, life is a casting off. It’s always that way. 
WILLY: No, no, some people- some people accomplish something. (7)


In this quote, Author Miller is trying to convey a sense of  anxiety. It states that they spent a whole life for buying a house. For this reason, we can tell that it's relatively difficult for middle class people to buy houses. This quote also imply he live in a  society that emphasizes the hollow values of material success. On the other hand, characters in the Great Gatsby are high class or mid-high class peoples. Thus, they are used to lavish life styles that held party even week. Besides, its just a piece of cake for them to buy a house. However, Fitzgerald is also trying to emphasize that moral decay in the New York City.

Death of a Salesman: Arthur Miller

LINDA: Willy, dear. Talk to them again. There’s no reason why
you can’t work in New York.
WILLY: They don’t need me in New York. I’m the New England
man. I’m vital in New England



In this conversation, it can relate to how Nick Carraway will eventually feel. Both Willy and Nick feels alienated from the people of New York and feels that his presence is not appreciated or noticed. Both stories give off a feeling that New Yorkers tend to be unwelcoming towards foreigners and that they feel especially connected to their own unique type of people.

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Analysis

How does New York and the Jazz age contribute to the setting?

Evaluation

Do you think Nick's character will change at the end of the book?

Creation

Who do you think Gatsby will turn for aid if a hurricane storm like The Day After Tomorrow strikes.

Analysis

How does New York and the Jazz age contribute to the setting?

Evaluation

Do you think Nick's character will change at the end of the book?

Creation

Who do you think Gatsby will turn for aid if a hurricane storm like The Day After Tomorrow strikes.

The Great Gatsby Question

Analysis

How has Nick's personal judgement of the other character change throughout the story?

Evaluation

Do you think Tom's attitude changes according to Gatsby's actions along with Daisy's?

Creation

If another rich guy moved into town, would Daisy fall in love with the new guy?

Lynn Question

Analysis:Does Daisy really love Jay Gatsby?
Evaluation:Will Daisy still love Gatsby if Gatsby is not rich? 
Creation: Who do you think Daisy will end up picking? 

The Great Gatsby Questions

Analysis: Now that we know a lot of flaws and lies about Jay Gatsby, do you think the title is sarcastic?
Evaluation: Do you think Jay Gatsby is actually in love with Daisy or the idea of having her?
Creation: Who do you think Daisy will pick?

Questions Brandon

1: How has Gatsby's relationship with other character's change?
2: Was Gatsby's confrontation to Tom worth it?
3: What do you think will happen to Daisy and Tom's relationship in the Future?

Questions for Great Gatsby

Evaluation: What makes Nick such an good narrator?
Analysis: Do you think characters in the story have the same view on East and West Eggs as our view? 
Creation: If Gatsby is a lot richer than Tom, will Daisy still get back with Tom? 

evaluative, analytic, and creative questions for the great gatsby

evaluation: Was the whole plan that Gatsby made to take Daisy away from Tom moral?
analysis: How is the attitudes of people from East Egg different from those from the West Egg?
creation: Would Daisy still choose to go with Gatsby if Gatsby is not rich?

The Great Gatsby Questions

Analysis: Why does Nick find people like Daisy, Tom and Gatsby unbearable but still hangs out with them?

Evaluation: Do you think Tom would take "better care" of Daisy from now on?

Creation: If Daisy didn't drive, would Myrtle still be killed?

Gatsby Questions

Evaluation: Who does Daisy really love?
Analysis: Why do you think Daisy say she still love Tom?
Creative: What do you think Tom and Gatsby's relationship will become in the future?

Analysis, Evaluation, Creation: "Great Gatsby"

Analysis Question: How doest the reunion of Daisy and Gatsby affect the story?

Evaluation Question: How does the character think about the Valley of Ashes and the eyes on the billboard? and what does it represent?

Creation Question: Will Daisy have a happier life with Gatsby or Tom?

Analysis, Evaluation, Creation: "Great Gatsby"

Analysis Question: Why is Nick different from other people?

Evaluation Question: Is Nick's view on New York getting worse or better?

Creation Question: Would Nick be happy to stay in New York with all this complication?

Gatsby Analysis Question

An analysis question asks people to make inferences or explain why something occurs. It asks people to break things down or to make connections.

Example: Why does Gatsby throw such elaborate parties?

Gatsby Evaluation Question

An evaluation question asks someone to make a judgment. The answer of the question may be ambiguous; it is subject to the point of view of whoever answers it.

Example: Do you think Jay and Daisy make a good couple? Why?

Gatsby Creation Question

A creation question could predict what will happen next, or ask what might have happened if something had been different.

Example: What could have Gatsby done to successfully woo Daisy?

CH 7 Quote

"Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me."

This quote signifies the end of Tom's dream with Daisy as his wife and Myrtle as his mistress. Daisy truly loves Gatsby instead of Tom, she has been having an affair with Gatsby and can't control her emotions for Gatsby even when Tom is nearby. So the character of Tom with Daisy is dead, and the inevitable change when Daisy leaves him is soon to come.

Brandon Dream Dies Quote

" She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart, she never loved anyone except me! " (100)

 This quote Gatsby is confronting Tom on why he thinks Daisy is with him. He tells him what he thinks as Tom was stubborn about making Gatsby tell him what his wife had to say. This relates to how a dream dies as when someone confronts you about something you believe for a long time to be not true, the dream crumbles like a dried up leaf, sucking out all the life in it. What Tom has believed for a long time seemed untrue, his lovely wife, whom he has married for a long time, has secrets he did not know, until now.

Ch.7 Quote

“She never loved you, do you hear?” he cried. “She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!”

Tom Buchanan lost his faith while Jay Gatsby told him that Daisy never loved him but his affluence. Tom was always confident and proud before he knew that Daisy had been in a relationship with Jay but later broke up because Jay was poor. Tom was also shocked because as a racist, he can't believe that Daisy will fall in love with a colored man.

Chapter 7 Dying Dream Quote

"Our eyes lifted over the rosebeds and the hot lawn and the weedy refuse of the dog days along shore. Slowly the white  wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky." (125)

Nick Carraway describes a downhearted setting about how time move on and people grow older. Dreams are forever soaring 

Ch.7 Dying Dream Quote

"Tom drove slowly until we were beyond the bend - then his foot came down hard, and the coupe raced along through the night. In a little while I heard a low husky sob, and saw that the tears were overflowing down his face.
'The God damned coward!' he whimpered. 'He didn't even stop his car'" (108).

Earlier in the chapter Tom learned that George Wilson had discovered his affair with Myrtle and was going to take her away. Now he found that she was killed by a car accident. Tom's dream of being with Myrtle faded when he knew she was leaving, but was crushed completely when she died.

ch.7 quote

"Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me."

This quote indicates to the end of Tom's dream. Jay Gatsby basically claims that Daisy does not love Tom and is only having a relationship with Tom because of his wealth. He uses never which is a pretty extreme word to emphasize how Tom is currently facing a situation that has extremes. He originally thought that Daisy loves him and even is one of his properties. But then it turns out that Daisy does not even love him and is only together with him due to his wealth. 

ch7 quote

"I'm just going to wait here and see if he tries to bother her about that unpleasantness
this afternoon. She's locked herself into her room and if he tries any
brutality she's going to turn the light out and on again."

"He won't touch her," I said. "He's not thinking about her."

"I don't trust him, old sport."

"How long are you going to wait?"

"All night if necessary. Anyhow till they all go to bed."
....
So I walked away and left him standing there in the
moonlight--watching over nothing 


This quote shows Gatsby's dream of getting together with Daisy is dying. He is going to wait there all night to see if Tom is doing anything to Daisy but he is watching over nothing. Tom and Daisy is getting back together therefore there is no need for Gatsby to wait there because Daisy is not going to send the signal.  

The Great Gatsby Ch.7 Quote

"Daisy and Tom were sitting opposite each other at the kitchen table, with a plate of cold fried chicken between them, and two bottles of ale. He was talking intently across the table at her, and in his earnestness his hand had fallen upon and covered her own. Once in a while she looked up at him and nodded in agreement."

Through this quote it shows Gatsby's dream, getting back together with Daisy, dying. The quote shows how Tom and Daisy reconciled and though Gatsby and Daisy have a chance of getting back together, it died when Tom and Daisy got back together after the car accident.

Chapter 7 Great Gatsby dead dream

“I’m sick,” said Wilson without moving. “Been sick all day.”

“What’s the matter?”

“I’m all run down.”

...

“What do you want money for, all of a sudden?”

“I’ve been here too long. I want to get away. My wife and I want to go West.”

“Your wife does,” exclaimed Tom, startled.

“She’s been talking about it for ten years.” He rested for a moment against the pump, shading his eyes. “And now she’s going whether she wants to or not. I’m going to get her away.”

...

“I just got wised up to something funny the last two days,” remarked Wilson. “That’s why I want to get away. That’s why I been bothering you about the car.”

--

This shows Wilson's dream dying. He was never aware that his wife had a separate life without him. His dream of living in America with his wife died when he realized that she wasn't who he thought she was. 

collapse of dream chapter 7

""Your wife doesn't love you," said Gatsby. "She's never loved you. She loves me."
"You must be crazy!" exclaimed Tom automatically.
Gatsby sprang to his feet, vivid with excitement.
"She never loved you, do you hear?" he cried. "She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved any one except me!"
At this point Jordan and I tried to go, but Tom and Gatsby insisted with competitive firmness that we remain-as though neither of them had anything to conceal and it would be a privilege to partake vicariously of their emotions" (ch 7, ebook)

This quote illustrates the collapse of Tom's dream, or his belief at least, of having a wife that actually loved him and only him. We can see this collapse directly when Gatsby claimed that Daisy never loved him and the tension in the air is getting intense. I would say this is a climax in this story. The later part of the story after this quote showed that despite Daisy did love Gatsby, she couldn't say that she's never been in love with Tom.
In addition, Tom saw this as crazy as intermarriage between white and black, which means he thought this was crazy and unacceptable.

ch.7 quote

"Gatsby and I in turn leaned down and took the small reluctant hand. Afterward he kept looking at the child with surprise. I don’t think he had ever really believed in its existence before." (124)

Gatsby's dream was getting back with Daisy. But when he met Daisy's daughter, he was stunned. His dream died becasue the existence of Daisy's daughter destroyed his hope of getting Daisy back.

Dream of Death - GG chpt 7 quote

"'We're getting old,' said Daisy. "If we were young we'd rise and dance." "Remember Biloxi," Jordan warned her..."(98)

When an exciting song comes up from the music mix, Daisy suggests that the gang is getting old because they would've start dancing to this song earlier. Getting old eventually leads to the end.
They were talking about Biloxi passing out during Daisy and Tom's wedding from the heat, and stroke usually lead to death.

Dream of A Character Dying

"It passed, and he began to talk excitedly to Daisy, deny- ing everything, defending his name against accusations that had not been made. But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling un- happily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room." 

By examining this quotation, we can see how Gatsby loses his dream or desire of reaching his perfection. Daisy Buchanan, is considered as something unattainable in Gatsby's life. In this chapter, Gatsby and Daisy finally reunite and publicize their affairs. Even though Gatsby finally gets what he has been wanting, simultaneously, he also loses his desire of reaching perfection in his life. 

Ch7 Quote

"They weren’t happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale - and yet they weren’t happy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture, and anybody would have said that they were conspiring each other."

Although Gatsby and daisy finally have chances to meet each other, they were not as sincere as before. Tom was suspicious of their relationships, and he did find out eventually. Although Gatsby and daisy do love each other, they are not getting back together since the author proofs that his dream is dead by depicting the scene where Tom and Daisy living comfortable in the house and Gatsby waited nervously outside.

Death Quote

"What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?" cried Daisy, "and the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
"Don't be so morbid," Jordan said, "Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

This conversation is related to the death of the character due to the fact that it mentions the process of aging and thus leading to death. Even Jordan mentions the word "morbid" which implies death in which Daisy is afraid of. Daisy is afraid of an unfulfilled life when she dies, one that is not so satisfying. Therefore it is easily seen that this conversation does represent some sort of death.

Alex's Quote

'From the ballroom beneath, muffled and suffocating chords were drifting up on hot waves of air. “Not that day I carried you down from the Punch Bowl to keep your shoes dry?” There was a husky tenderness in his tone.. .. “Daisy?”'

Jay Gatsby's dream is to be with Daisy, but now Gatsby's dream is fading. Gatsby's dream of being together with Daisy is dying. Daisy rejected Jay Gatsby in front of everyone. When Jay asked Daisy if she ever loved him, she said no. Jay is now disappointed and sad.

New York

Valley of Ashes

East Egg

West Egg

"He made money. It was rather amazing. After college he went to the city from which Black Bear Lake draws its wealthy patrons. When he was only twenty-three and had been there not quite two years, there were already people who liked to say: "Now there's a boy--" All about him rich men's sons were peddling bonds precariously, or investing patrimonies precariously, or plodding through the two dozen volumes of the "George Washington Commercial Course," but Dexter borrowed a thousand dollars on his college degree and his confident mouth, and bought a partnership in a laundry."

This quote tells you about Dexter, and how after college, he made successful investments in many different things, including a laundry, where he made a lot of money.

Winter Dreams Analysis

"The color in her cheeks was centered like the color in a picture--it was not a "high" color, but a sort of fluctuating and feverish warmth, so shaded that it seemed at any moment it would recede and disappear. This color and the mobility of her mouth gave a continual impression of flux, of intense life, of passionate vitality--balanced only partially by the sad luxury of her eyes."

This relates to the dram where in the author has heightened senses and is afraid of to lose the delicacies of the moment.  

Winter Dreams quote

"A low, pale oblong detached itself suddenly from the darkness of the Island, spitting forth the reverberate sound of a racing motor-boat. Two white streamers of cleft water rolled themselves out behind it and almost immediately the boat was beside him, drowning out the hot tinkle of the piano in the drone of its spray. Dexter raising himself on his arms was aware of a figure standing at the wheel, of two dark eyes regarding him over the lengthening space of water--then the boat had gone by and was sweeping in an immense and purposeless circle of spray round and round in the middle of the lake. With equal eccentricity one of the circles flattened out and headed back toward the raft."

Shows that even if Judy is not a flapper, she dresses, acting like one. Women in that era can't be dressing like that. However the flappers dress very differently to show their rebellion characteristics to the social norms. The women at this time should not show any part of their body other than their face and hand. The flappers however show out all their arms, and even parts of their legs. 
Judy in this case is riding a motor boat, which is strictly forbidden to ride by the women of her time. 

Winter Dreams Quote

"You're not. I like you. But I've just had a terrible afternoon. There was a man I cared about, and this afternoon he told me out of a clear sky that he was poor as a church-mouse. He'd never even hinted it before. Does this sound horribly mundane?"
.......
"Suppose he was," she answered. "He didn't start right. You see, if I'd thought of him as poor--well, I've been mad about loads of poor men, and fully intended to marry them all. But in this case, I hadn't thought of him that way, and my interest in him wasn't strong enough to survive the shock. As if a girl calmly informed her fianc_ that she was a widow. He might not object to widows, but----
"Let's start right," she interrupted herself suddenly. "Who are you, anyhow?"
For a moment Dexter hesitated. Then:
"I'm nobody," he announced. "My career is largely a matter of futures."
"Are you poor?"
"No," he said frankly, "I'm probably making more money than any man my age in the Northwest. I know that's an obnoxious remark, but you advised me to start right." (Chapter III)

From this quote we can see that Judy Jones cares a lot about people's wealth. Her dream is to marry someone who is rich and who can afford good living condition. Everyone has a different priority when it comes to life and for Judy Jones's it is wealth. She directly asked Dexter about this which shows how much she cares about money. She is being completely honest and when she heard that Dexter is rich, she was really happy and believed that he would be a good husband. Her dream is to get married with a rich husband and have a good living condition.

character analysis

"'Let's start right,' she interrupted herself suddenly. 'Who are you, anyhow?' 
For a moment Dexter hesitated. Then: 
'I'm nobody,' he announced. 'My career is largely a matter of futures.' 
'Are you poor?' 
'No,' he said frankly, 'I'm probably making more money than any man my age in the Northwest. I know that's an obnoxious remark, but you advised me to start right.'"

This quote clearly shows that how Jude Jones' ultimate goal of life is to just basically marry a rich guy so that it can raise her life-standard and possess a better living. This quote also directly refers to the shallowness of Judy Jones when she rudely question upon the guy's financial background. 

"Winter Dream" setting

"'Let's start right,' she interrupted herself suddenly. 'Who are you, anyhow?' 

For a moment Dexter hesitated. Then: 

'I'm nobody,' he announced. 'My career is largely a matter of futures.' 

'Are you poor?' 

'No,' he said frankly, 'I'm probably making more money than any man my age in the Northwest. I know that's an obnoxious remark, but you advised me to start right.'"

It shows Judy Jones's dream of marrying rich guys so that she can have good living standard. It also illustrates her shallowness when she directly ask Dexter's financial standing.

quotation from the winter dreams

""I'm nobody," he announced. "My career is largely a matter of futures."
"Are you poor?"
"No," he said frankly, "I'm probably making more money than any man my age in the Northwest. I know that's an obnoxious remark, but you advised me to start right."(Part 3)

This exchange between Dexter and Judy shows that what Judy really cared was whether Dexter was rich or not, but not his other traits and his personality. And the fact that Dexter says he's a nobody but defined himself with his luxury presents the idea of his winter dream, a dream to become materialistically rich. Furthermore, when Judy asked him who he was, he immediately connected this question to his career but not other aspects of him, which shows that ever since he had left Minnesota to aspire to his affluence by first getting an education in a prominent college and then starting a business to pursue monetary gain, he's never really grown much in terms of his personality and spirits as well as other forms of social traits, which made him unable to define himself with other things besides his wealth.

Winter Dream Analysis Brandon

 He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it--and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges. It is with one of those denials and not with his career as a whole that this story deals.(Act 2 Paragraph 1)

 He did not want to be associated as the wealthy, the rich, the arrogant, he wanted those things rather than being associated it. He had a desire for it as everyone wants good things in life. In that time period, education systems can often indicate the rich, and he did not wanted to get associated with them therefore he had turned down the major university in the East. The time period has a great affect on the decision of Dexter, as people before never attended universities and now it is a common thing among everyone to attend university as the basic educational bottom line.

Winter Dreams quote

"He went East in February with the intention of selling out his laundries and settling in New York--but the war came to America in March and changed his plans. He returned to the West, handed over the management of the business to his partner, and went into the first officers' training-camp in late April. He was one of those young thousands who greeted the war with a certain amount of relief, welcoming the liberation from webs of tangled emotion."(Chapter 5)

It was typical for a love relationship to be broken and lost in real life or in fictions, especially in the rustic World Wars. The tangled emotion he is having is from Judy marrying another person, leaving Dexter empty handed after abandoning Irene. He uses the war to have his mind off of the heartbreak.

Winter Dreams Analysis

"The helpless part of trying to do anything about it was that she did it all herself. She was not a girl who could be 'won' in the kinetic sense--she was proof against cleverness, she was proof against charm; if any of these assailed her too strongly she would immediately resolve the affair to a physical basis, and under the magic of her physical splendor the strong as well as the brilliant played her game and not their own. She was entertained only by the gratification of her desires and by the direct exercise of her own charm. Perhaps, from so much youthful love, so many youthful lovers, she had come, in self-defense, to nourish herself wholly from within."

Judy's dream is to be with someone who could provide all of her materialistic needs. She constantly strives to be with someone with status and wealth. If she felt that the relationship was getting too personal, she would drive it back into the direction that she had control over, which was her "physical splendor". 

However, I think that she also dreams of being accepted. She doesn't accept herself as a person, and therefore strives to be accepted by others. 

Winter Dreams Quotation

"The little girl who had done this was eleven--beautifully ugly as little girls are apt to be who are destined after a few years to be inexpressibly lovely and bring no end of misery to a great number of men. The spark, however, was perceptible. There was a general ungodliness in the way her lips twisted ,down at the corners when she smiled, and in the--Heaven help us!--in the almost passionate quality of her eyes. Vitality is born early in such women. It was utterly in evidence now, shining through her thin frame in a sort of glow."

No matter the age, all girls strive to be as pretty as they can be, especially for young teens or soon to be teens. The young little girl who's eleven, of course, would want to be pretty and from what Dexter could see, she'll soon grow into a beautiful young lady in which young girls dream about. 

Winter Dreams Analysis

"My God, she's good-looking!" said Mr. Sandwood, who was just over thirty.

"Good-looking!" cried Mr. Hedrick contemptuously, "she always looks as if she wanted to be kissed! Turning those big cow-eyes on every calf in town!"

Throughout the story, the author depicts the how people seeking for wealth and social status. They believed in success and dreamed to achieve success. In this quotation, it is describing several men in the golf club staring at Judy. They were describing how gorgeous she was. In the meantime, this quotation shows that man dream to become rich and have beautiful wives.

"And her mouth damp to his kisses and her eyes plaintive with melancholy and her freshness like new fine linen in the morning. Why, these things were no longer in the world! They had existed and they existed no longer."

Although Dexter achieved higher social status rather than a caddies, became rich and get pretty girls, he wasn't as happy as he thought success would be.

Winter Dreams Analysis

"He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves. Often he reached out for the best without knowing why he wanted it--and sometimes he ran up against the mysterious denials and prohibitions in which life indulges. It is with one of those denials and not with his career as a whole that this story deals.
He made money. It was rather amazing. After college he went to the city from which Black Bear Lake draws its wealthy patrons." (Chapter II)

Dexter's winter dream is to get rich. From the text above, we know that he wanted money. After he graduate from college, he went to earn money from the city where Black Bear Lake draws its wealth. He wanted the glittering things themselves. I guess it mean money and valuable items. He wants money really bad.

Winter Dreams Analysis

"Well, do you know how to drive a motor-boat? Because if you do I wish you'd drive this one so I can ride on the surf-board behind. My name is Judy Jones"--she favored him with an absurd smirk--rather, what tried to be a smirk, for, twist her mouth as she might, it was not grotesque, it was merely beautiful--"and I live in a house over there on the Island, and in that house there is a man waiting for me. When he drove up at the door I drove out of the dock because he says I'm his ideal."

His wish to stop being a caddy is a challenge because many other jobs requires other experiences that Dexter lacks and how does this connect to the American dream? Well, many Americans claim that their country is the land of opportunity, however, it is not always true. Many people in the United States, to this day, are affected through biased and unfair thoughts, and many people do not receive the opportunities that they obviously deserve, such as Dexter. 

"Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more."

Here it shows how the American dream and how much people invest in it can only make one's feelings sink even more. 

winter analysis

"No, sir," said Dexter decisively, "I don't want to caddy any more." Then, after a pause: "I'm too old."
His winter dreams happened to be concerned at first with musings on the rich, that there was anything merely snobbish in the boy. He wanted not association with glittering things and glittering people--he wanted the glittering things themselves.

In this passage, Dexter is talking about his life. He doesn't want to be a caddy anymore and he wants something better for his life. In the passage, he talks about his dreams. His dreams to own "glittering things" he doesn't want to see them and associate with them, such as what he could have done when he was a caddy, he wanted to own them.

Winter Dreams - Character Dreams

Post a quotation that shows the dream of a character in "Winter Dreams" and explain what it is.

Winter Dreams Time Period

Post a quotation that indicates that the story takes place during the Roaring Twenties and explain why.

Scarlet Letter Chapter 6 Analysis

"Thou art not my child! Thou art no Pearl of mine!" said the mother half playfully; for it was often the case that a sportive impulse came over her in the midst of her deepest suffering. "Tell me, then, what thou art, and who sent thee hither?"

"Tell me, mother!" said the child, seriously, coming up to Hester, and pressing herself close to her knees. "Do thou tell me!"

"Thy Heavenly Father sent thee!" answered Hester Prynne.

But she said it with a hesitation that did not escape the acuteness of the child. Whether moved only by her ordinary freakishness, or because an evil spirit prompted her, she put up her small forefinger and touched the scarlet letter.

"He did not send me!" cried she, positively. "I have no Heavenly Father!"

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In this quote, Pearl does not believe Hester when Hester says that Pearl was sent by her "Heavenly Father". Pearl senses the hesitation in Hester's voice when she (Hester) answers her (Pearl) question. 

(text-to-life) 

I have often seen people lose credibility when they are not firm in their answer. For example, while I present an argument, if I sound unsure or unconfident about what I'm saying, my opponent is more likely to jump at the chance to attack me. 

Crucible analysis

Why is Proctor John so adverse to the comings of Abigail? He has had previous intimate contact with her, but now denies it.

questions

analysis: How are the characteristics of Abigail and Mercy different:

evaluating: Is the characteristics Abigail has demonstrated appropriate for a 17-year-old girl?

creating: How would the whole accusation of witchcraft be seen in modern society?

P.S. sorry i didn't have internet connection yesterday.

The Crucible-The Scarlet Letter Creation Question

The Crucible-The Scarlet Letter Evaluation Question

The Crucible-The Scarlet Letter Analysis Question

quote from p 138-141

"He regarded them as young adults, and until this strange crisis he, like the rest of Salem, never conceived that the children were anything but thankful for being permitted to walk straight, eyes slightly lowered, arms at the sides, and mouths shut until bidden to speak." (138)

This quote portrays how the kids in a Puritan society were expected. Similar to the description in the Scarlet Letter where it mentions how those kids could only play certain games and behave in certain ways within Puritan restrictions,this quote illustrates how Parris, an important religious figure in Salem back in his time, as well as the whole Puritan society, saw their kids and their behaviors.

quote from The Cruicible

"I look for John Proctor that took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart! I never knew what pretense Salem was, I never knew the lying lessons I was taught by all these Christian women and their covenanted men! And now you bid me tear the light out of my eyes? I will not, I cannot! You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet!" (150)

Abigail's situation, seem in this quote, is similar to that of Hester because they both committed adultery and they both have the feelings for those men. In the Scarlet Letter Hester obviously has some kind of attachment to Dimmesdale. When they were in the minister's house she asked the minister to defend her, and in the later part when they meet each other in the woods the tone of their conversation sends out an atmosphere that an intimate relationship would have. In this quote, such feeling is conveyed rather directly through words such as " took me from my sleep and put knowledge in my heart."

Act 1 of The Crucible

Mrs. Putnam (full of breath, shiny-eyed). It is a marvel. It is surely a stroke of hell upon you. 

Parris. No, Goody Putnam, it is--

Mrs. Putnam (glancing at Betty). How high did she fly, how high? 

Parris. No, no, she never flew--

Mrs. Putnam (very pleased with it). Why, it's sure she did. Mr. Collins saw her goin' over Ingersoll's barn, and come down light as bird, he says! 

Mrs. Putnam is "very pleased" with the misfortune of Parris. She thinks that Betty has been involved in witchcraft, so she will be punished, and so will Parris because his reputation will be destroyed. In both The Crucible and The Scarlet Letter, the civilians of the Puritan society are pleased with other peoples misfortunes. For example, in The Scarlet Letter, some women are happy that Hester was being punished. People delight in each other's punishments. 

Rebecca: "I think she will wake in time, pray calm yourselves. I have eleven children and I am twenty-six times a grandma, and I have seen them all through their silly seasons, and when it come on them they will run the Devil bowlegged keeping up with their mischief. I think she’ll wake when she tires of it." (151)

This quote relates to Scarlet Letter in which Hester is troubled by Pearl. In a sense, children can be troubling and annoying at times like Pearl could be angelic and demon-like the next. However, Hester learned to love Pearl. This quote relates to Scarlet Letter."

"As for Rebecca, the general opinion of her character was so high that to explain how anyone dared cry her out for a witch - and more, how adults could bring themselves to lay hands on her - we must look to the fields and boundaries of that time." (151)

Just like Reverend Dimmesdale in the Scarlet Letter, people who's names are known for what they have done are less prone to be suspected as a evildoer.

The Crucible Act 1 Quote

"Abigail. 'John - I am waitin' for you every night.' [. . .] Abigail. 'You're surely sportin' with me.'" (149)

This quote is somehow related to the the Scarlet letter because both story is illustrating an adultery affair. You can tell from this quote that the relationship is a bit offtrack and not right by the word sporting, meaning intimate sexual intercourse, and by the tone of how she said she will be waiting every night is just abnormal and fishy.

The Crucible Act 1 Quote

"Proctor. I seen none dyin'. This society will not be a bad to swing around your head, Mr. Putnam (to Parris) Did you call a meeting before you-?
Putman. I am sick of meetings; cannot the man turn his head without he have a meeting?
Porctor. He may turn his head, but not to Hell!" (151)

In this quote we can see that during that time, everyone was related and know each other. Everyone cares about what is going on in their society and in their townspeople's lives. They believes that the movement and every action of the people in the town should be known from everyone else. For example in this quote we can see that they have to call meetings and tell everyone what is going on. In their society, they believed that everyone should work together and that problems should be notified and solved by everyone. You can see that there are still people who don't want to, for example, Putman. But then Proctor immediately said that it is wrong to not to have a meeting. And throughout the whole story, everyone keeps one telling Parris that he has to tell everyone what is going on. This is like the Scarlet Letter because in the book we can see that everyone knows what is going on and the punishment and the things Hester did was notified to everyone in the town. Everyone knows what the A stands for on her chest. To the Puritans, sins should be public and everyone should know what is going on.

The Crucible Act I Quote

"These people had no ritual for the washing away of sins. It is another trait we inherited from them, and it has helped to discipline us as well as to breed hypocrisy among us" (148).

In The Crucible, John Proctor is described as a sinner, both to the society and to himself. Although he appears to be respected by others, he sees himself a fraud because in the Puritan religion there is no way a sinner can get rid of his/her sins. In The Scarlet Letter, Hester and Dimmesdale also cannot wash away their sins. Hester's bond to the scarlet letter symbolizes that she has no way of redeeming herself. Dimmesdale, though he kept secret, suffers without a moment's rest over his sin until he died. Unlike The Scarlet Letter, however, characters in The Crucible don't seem to struggle with their sins as much.

The Crucible Act One

"It must come out     my enemies will bring it out. Let me know what you done there. Abigail, do you understand that I have many enemies?...There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit. Do you understand that?" p. 142

From this quote is show that within the Crucible that, like the Scarlet Letter, reputation is everything. When Hester was marked with the letter A, her reputation was broken down and the villagers started their public hatred and disgust for her. In the Crucible, Parris is worried about his reputation because he doesn't want to be hated on losing the trust that he finally gained over the years; He doesn't want to end up isolated from his society.

The Crucible

"But all organization is and must be grounded on the idea of exclusion and prohibition" (141).

In the Scarlet Letter, this idea is also implicitly incorporated into the society. They prohibit ungodly acts which includes adultery. Adultery was prohibited and when Hester committed it, she was excluded from the community and shown as a symbol of the consequences of disobeying the prohibition rule. 

Crucible Act 1 Quote (142) Brandon Lu

"Abigail. Uncle, the rumor of witchcraft is all about;
I think you’d best go down and deny it yourself. The
parlor’s packed with people, sir. I’ll sit with her.
Parris ( pressed, turns on her). And what shall I say to
them? That my daughter and my niece I discovered
dancing like heathen in the forest?
Abigail. Uncle, we did dance; let you tell them I
confessed it—and I’ll be whipped if I must be. But
they’re speakin’ of witchcraft. Betty’s not witched.
Parris. Abigail, I cannot go before the congregation
when I know you have not opened with me. What
did you do with her in the forest?
Abigail. We did dance, uncle, and when you leaped
out of the bush so suddenly, Betty was frightened
and then she fainted. And there’s the whole of it.
Parris. Child. Sit you down.
Abigail (quavering, as she sits). I would never hurt
Betty. I love her dearly.
Parris. Now look you, child, your punishment will
come in its time. But if you trafficked with
 spirits in the forest I must know it now, for surely my
enemies will, and they will ruin me with it.(142)"



This quote shows that the people back in those times also believed heavily on religious things. Everyone would have to be confronted infront of everyone by the people of the town just like the Scarlet Letter as Hester was being publicly humiliated with her hateful sin. This quote shows that people will be punished if they were to commit something bad just like the public condemnation in the Scarlet Letter. They believed heavily on things like spirits and god and they believed that all these things had an effect on how people acted and behaved. Both the Scarlet Letter and the Crucible based their society on something that cannot be seen by the naked eye, like god and spirits.

The Crucible Act 1 Quote

"ABIGAIL. 'She is blackening my name in the village! ... You loved me, John Proctor, and whatever sin it is, you love me yet! He turns abruptly to go out. She rushes to him. John, pity me, pity me (150)'".

John Proctor committed adultery with Abigail and John's wife has found out this thing. Abigail hope she could continue the relationship between John and her; however, John did not want to keep on.
John Proctor and Abigail just like Dimmesdale and Hester because they all committed adultery. In both stories, main characters' husband or wife has found out they committed adultery. For instance, Roger Chillingworth found out Hester committed adultery and so does John's wife found out John and Abigail has special relationship.

Quote from The Crucible Act one

Tituba. Aye, sir, a good Christian woman. Hale. And you love these little children?

Tituba. Oh, yes, sir, I don’t desire to hurt little children.

Hale. And you love God, Tituba? Tituba. I love God with all my bein’. Hale. Now, in God’s holy name—

Tituba. Bless Him. Bless Him. (She is rocking on her knees, sobbing in terror.)

Hale. And to His glory—
Tituba. Eternal glory. Bless Him—bless God . . .

Hale. Open yourself, Tituba—open yourself and let God’s holy light shine on you(161).

In this conversation, Hale was trying to find out whether Tituba is a witch  who is associated with the devil. This quote can be related to the Scarlet Letter by treating God as the most sacred person who is wise and omnipotent and cannot be violated. They believed that the God knows everything. Besides, they are trying to save Betty and find out the Devil with God’s power. Thus, by reading this quote and The scarlet Letter, we can find out that both communities were influenced deeply bu religious and they believed in a potent God

The Crucible Act 1 Quote

Abigail: John-I am waitin' for you every night.
Proctor: Abby, I never give you the hope of waiting for me
Abigail: .. she puts me out..(page 149)
Betty: You drank blood to kill John Proctor's wife! (page 148)

From the first two lines we can see that Proctor surly had unusual relationship with Abigail. Very likely to be the same unusual relationship between Dimmesdale and Hester.
The following two lines tells the reader the consequence of the relationship, one is that Proctor's wife finds out about the relationship between Proctor and Abigail and she kicks Abigail out of the house. The other is Abigail drank blood to kill John Proctor's wife resulting in the sickness of the girls and witchcraft rumor that goes around the village. The consequence of the relationship between Dimmesdale and Hester is that Hester have Pearl, get publicly condemn, and have to wear the scarlet letter for the rest of her life.

Quote from The Crucible act 1

"Abigail. 'John - I am waitin' for you every night.' [. . .] Abigail. 'You're surely sportin' with me.'" (Page 149)

This quote is related to The Scarlet Letter, because this part is related to adultery and usual close relationship. In the Scarlet Letter, Dimmesdale and Hester have an unusual relationship between them. Dimmesdale hugs Hester on the scaffold, talks to Hester, and defends for them. In this quote, Abigail not only mention they have been "sporting" with each other. She also called Proctor by his first name, but not the last name. This shows an unusual relationship between them.

"The Crucible" Act 1: Quotes

Parris: (scrambling to his feet in a fury) Out of my sight! (She is gone.) Out of my-(He is overcome with sobs. He clamps his teeth against them and close the door and leans against it, exhausted.) Oh, my God! God help me! (Quaking with fear, mumbling to himself through his sobs, he goes to the bed and gently takes Betty's hand.) Betty. Child. Dear child. Will you wake, will you open up your eyes! Better, little one...

Considering as one of the most pious clergyman, Dimmesdale encountered similar difficulty as Parris did in "The Crucible". People started having an assumption that Parris's daughter might practice the witchcraft. By looking at this quotation, we can see how Parris was concerned about his identity being violated by her daughter's condition. Parris revealed ambivalence of not only protecting his own religious reputation but also worrying about his daughter's symptom. Dimmedsale also shared the same dilemma of reuniting with Hester Prynne or defending his own renown. 

Quote from The Crucible act 1

"Abigail. I know how you clutched my back behind
your house and sweated like a stallion whenever
I come near! Or did I dream that? It’s she put me
out, you cannot pretend it were you. I saw your face
when she put me out, and you loved me then and
you do now!"(149)

It relates to The Scarlet Letter because it's adultery. In The Scarlet Letter Heaster and Demmisdale had committed adultry but Demmisdale was to coward to admit. He let Hester bare all the charges and suffer from the isolation of the townspeople. In The Crucible, Abigail said Proctor loved her even though he already had a wife. But Proctor was not dare to admit it because they live in a society that is stricter than the society in The Scarlet Letter. In the Salem society, they might be punished far more severly when charged as committing adultery.

The Crucible Quotation

"Massachusetts tried to kill off the Puritans, but they combined up; they set up a communal society wich, in the begining, was a little more than an armed camp with autocratic and very devoted leadership ." (140)

This quote shows that the puritans were not tolerated by other people from Massachusetts, however, it is similar to the Scarlet Letter in a way that the Puritans had to form their own mini group with a leadership under a group of ministers.

The Crucible Quotation by Steven Tung

"This predilection for minding other people's business was time-honored among the people of Salem..."(140).

This quote shows that the people of Salem were used to trying to catch each other sinning, and the sins of the people were made public. This was also true in The Scarlet Letter, because everyone knew that Hester had sinned, and she was publicly chastised in front of everyone

The Crucible Quote

"No one can really know what their lives were like. They had no novelists - and would not have permitted any to read a novel if one were handy. Their creed forbade anything resembling a theater or "vain enjoyment." They did not celebrate Christmas, and a holiday from work meant only that they must concentrate even more upon prayer." (138)

In this quote from the Crucible, we can see that religion was a very big part in their culture. The people living in the time period when the Crucible was taken place thought that work and religion were the two most important thing in everyone's lives. When they said children went to play, they meant they went to pray. Praying and going to church were the enjoyment of their lives. This is similar to the people in the Scarlet Letter because in the Scarlet Letter, the people cared a lot about religion too. They believed that when you committed a crime, its not only a bad thing to do, but you are committing the crime to God. And that is very very bad. When Hester committed adultery, they believed that she had committed a sin. We can also see that they respect their religion leaders a lot from the way people treated Mr. Dimmesdale. But the difference we can see in this quote between the Crucible and the Scarlet Letter is that in the Crucible it seems more depressing and sad and that people really didn't do anything other than praying and working. But in the Scarlet Letter, people had more fun and sounded more relaxing.

Crucible quote TOny

"At any rate, very few Indians were converted, and the Salem fold believed that the virgin forest was the Devil's last preserve, his home base and the citadel of his final stand." (140)

Puritans are radical religious believer, they think anybody who thinks different, commits sin, or not believe god as infidels. Indians were considered to be savages who lived in the wilds with no faith, and a perfect fallback for Satan himself. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester was considered infidel when she got found out about her sexual sin. People gave her chance to revive her faith with life long punishment, but this however shows how radically the puritains react to their religious believes.

The Crucible Quotation

"As the curtain rises. Reverend Parris is discovered kneeling beside the bed, evidently in prayer. His daughter, Betty Parris, aged ten, is lying on the bed, inert."

This quote from the Crucible relates to The Scarlet Letter because Betty Parris is somewhat like Pearl in the Scarlet letter, and both daughters are serve as an important part of upon their family. Betty Parris and Pearl are also about the same age, which makes them even more related.  

The Crucible Quotation by Joseph Wei

"For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution"(140).

This quote relates to the Scarlet Letter mainly in the way of persecution. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester Prynne is persecuted because of her act of adultery. Hester is different from the public aspect of the puritan society and so she is ostracized and persecuted. The puritan ancestors were persecuted in England, so now the puritans are persecuting the aliens, those who disobey their rules, including Hester.

The Crucible Quotation by Jeremy Huang

"For these reasons, among others, they carried about an air of innate resistance, even of persecution. Their fathers had, of course, been persecuted in England. So now they and their church found it necessary to deny any other sect its freedom, lest their New Jerusalem be defiled and corrupted by wrong ways and deceitful ideas" (140).


This quote is connected to the Scarlet Letter due to the fact that it contains persecutions and people searching for a new place to start a puritan religion, where they will not be hurt by the English government. Hester is related to this because in the quote it mentions a New Jerusalem and the new church often makes people feel like they are obliged to adhere to the rules.. thus Hester was put in jail for adultery. 

The Crucible Quotation by Winston Chen

"The edge of the wilderness was close by. The American continent stretched endlessly west, and it was full of mystery for them. It stood, dark, and threatening, over their shoulders night and day, for out of it Indian tribes marauded from time to time..."

This quote about the story is similar to the Scarlet Letter in which they use the wilderness/forest to represent religiously bad things. In the Scarlet Letter, Hester was offered to meet the devil in the forest. This is understandable because both stories are set in a colonial, strictly Puritan society.