Norma Desmond and Willy are two very similar characters. They both are people that used to be “big” and are still pretty caught up with it. In the movie, Norma says, “I am big, it is the pictures that got small!” She was once successful and thinks she still is. Willy was the same way. He always bragged about how good of a salesman he is/was. He also thought he was going to die the “death of a salesman” where everyone would come to his funeral; however, only his family, Bernard, and Charley came. Another similarity is that Willy and Norma are both a little weird. Norma has a dead monkey in her house that she wants to put in a coffin and bury in her backyard, and Willy has “memories” that sometimes interfere with his everyday life.
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Hey Abbey, good post. I think that you're correct when you say that both the characters used to be supposedly big but now are small. It's weird though, because I actually don't think that Willy was ever big in reality, just in his mind. Good Post!
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