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"Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him" (1240)

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Biff;Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. i Can't get near him. (1240)

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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! (Act 1)

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Biff: Stop making excuses for him! He always , always wiped the floor with you.

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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.

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Willy: Don't take his side all the time, goddammit!

Biff: Stop yelling at her!

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"Everything i say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him" (1240).

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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!

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Willy: "There's more people! That's what's ruining this country! The competition is maddening! Smell the stink from that apartment house! And the one on the other side... How can they whip the cheese?" (Act 1)

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Linda: There's nothing to make up, dear. You're doing fine, better than-

Willy: What's that?

Linda: Just mending my stockings. They're so expensive-

Willy: I wont 'have you meding stockings in this house! Now throw them out!

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WILLY: "Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want."

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Biff- Why does dad mock me all the time?

Happy- He's not mocking you, he-

Biff-Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him

Happy- He just wants you to make good, that's all. I wanted to talk to you about Dad for a long time, Biff. Somethings --happening to him. He-talks to himself.

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Willy: Why do you always insult me?

Biff: I didn't say a word. [to Linda] Did I say a word?

Linda: He didn't say anything, WIlly

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Biff: Why does Dad mock me all the time?

Happy: He's not mocking you, he-

Biff: Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him

(1240)

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Biff: Stop making excuses for him! He always, always wiped the floor with you. Never had an ounce of respect for you.

Happy: He's always had respect for-

Biff: What the hell do you know about it? (1257)

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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!

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Biff: "Are you content, Hap? You're a success, aren't you? Are you content?

Happy: "Hell, no!"

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Linda: "When you write you're coming, he's all smiles, and talks about the future, and he's just wonderful. Then the closer you seem to come, the more shaky he gets, and then, by the time you get here, he's arguing, and he seems angry at you. I think it's just that maybe he can't bring himself to ... to open up to you. Why are you so hateful to each other?"

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BIFF: I bet you forgot how bashful you used to be. Especially with girls.

HAPPY: I control it, that's all. I think I got less bashful and you got more so. What happened, Biff?

BIFF: Why does dad mock me

HAPPY: He's not mocking you, he-

BIFF: Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him.

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"Linda: He's finding himself, Willy.

Willy: Not finding yourself at the age of thirty-four is a disgrace.

Linda: Shh!

Willy: The trouble is lazy, goddammit!

Linda: Willy, please

Willy: Biff is a lazy bum"

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Linda: Willy--

Willy: [turining on her] Don't take his side all the time, goddammit!

Biff: [furiously] Stop yelling at her!

...

Linda: [her voice subdued] What'd you have to start that for? [Biff turns away angry]

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WILLY: [hanging on to his words] Oh Ben, that's good to hear! Because sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not teaching them the right kind of- Ben, how should I teach them?

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WILLY

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"I don't want a change!..... Why am I always being contradicted?"

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Willy: "How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand?... But it's more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week?" (1237).

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Linda: "And then the closer you seem to come, the more shaky he gets, and then, by the time you get here, he's arguing, and he seems angry at you. I think it's just that maybe he can't bring himself to--to open up to you. Why are you so hateful to each other?"

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"Don't leave again, will you? You'll find a job here. You gotta stick around. I don't know what to do about him, it's getting embarrassing" (1243)

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Linda: Biff, dear, if you don't have any feeling for him, then you can't have any feeling for me." (1257).

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"Biff: What the hell is the matter with him?

Linda: It'll pass by morning.

Biff: Shouldn't we do anything?

Linda: Oh, my dear, you should do a lot of things, but there's nothing to do so go to sleep." (1256).

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LINDA: I’m just wondering if Oliver will remember him. You think he might? WILLY [coming out of the bathroom in his pajamas]: Remember him? What’s the matter with you, you crazy? If he’d stayed with Oliver he’d be on top by now! Wait’ll Oliver gets a look at him. You don’t know the average caliber any more. The average young man today—[he’s getting into bed]—is got a caliber of zero. Greatest thing in the world for him was to bum around.

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WILLY (starting to go around the house at the left): I was right! I was! (Half to Linda, as he goes, shaking his head.) What a man! There was a man worth talking to. I was right!

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Willy: 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?

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Linda: He's finding himself, Willy.

Willy: Not finding yourself at the age of of thirty-four is a disgrace.

Linda: Shh!

Willy: The trouble is lazy, goddammit!

Linda: Willy, please

Willy: Biff is a lazy bum

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Linda: "You shouldn't have criticized him, Willy, especially ater he just got off the train. You mustn't lose your temper with him.

Willy: When the hell did i lose my temper? I simply asked him if he was making money. Is that criticism?" (Pg 1237)

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Linda: Willy--

Willy: [turining on her] Don't take his side all the time, goddammit!

Biff: [furiously] Stop yelling at her!

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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. That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want. You take me, for instance. I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. "Willy Loman is here!" That’s all they have to know and I go right through.

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Willy: I know, it's a fine machine What else?

Linda: Well, there's nine-sixty for the washing machine. and the vacuum cleaner there's three and a half due on the fifteenth. Then the roof, you got twenty-one dollars remaining.

Willy: It don't leak, does it?

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Willy: Why do you always insult me?

Biff: I didn't say a word. Did I say a word?

Linda: He didn't say anything, Willy.

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Biff: Why does dad mock me all the time?

Happy: He just wants you to make good, that's all. I wanted to talk to you about Dad for a long time, Biff. Something's --happening to him. He--talks to himself.

Biff: I noticed that this morning. But he always mumbled.

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Happy: Well, there's no use in---

Willy: You guys! There was a man started with the clothes on his back and ended up with diamond mines!

Happy: Boy, someday I'd like to kno who he did it.

Willy: What's mystery? 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! The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on a mattress!

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Everything i say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him. (1240)

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"Why do you always insult me"

"I didn't say a word" "Did I Say a word" "He didn't say anything, Willy"

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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!

(Act 1)

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Biff: Why does Dad mock me all the time?

Happy: He's not mocking you, he-

Biff: Everything I say there's a twist of mockery on his face. I can't get near him. (1240)

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Linda- Where were you all day?vyou look terrible

Willy- I got as far as a little above Yonkers. I stopped for a cup of coffee. Maybe it was the coffee.

Willy- i suddenly couldn't drive any more. The car kept going off onto the shoulder, y'know?

Linda- Oh. Maybe it was the steering again. I don't think Angelo knows the Studebaker.

Willy- no, its me, its me. Suddenly i realize i'm goin' sixty miles an hour and i don't remember the last five minutes. I'm- i cant seem to keep my ind to it.

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WILLY: Don’t talk about something you don’t know anything about. (They are playing. Pause.) CHARLEY: What’re you doin’ home? WILLY: A little trouble with the car. CHARLEY: Oh. (Pause.) I’d like to take a trip to California. WILLY: Don’t say. CHARLEY: You want a job? WILLY: I got a job, I told you that. (After a slight pause.) What the hell are you offering me a job for? CHARLEY: Don’t get insulted. WILLY: Don’t insult me. CHARLEY: I don’t see no sense in it. You don’t have to go on this way. WILLY: I got a good job. (Slight pause.) What do you keep comin’ in here for? CHARLEY: You want me to go? WILLY (after a pause, withering): I can’t understand it. He’s going back to Texas again. What the hell is that (1251).

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Willy: What's the mystery? The man knew what he wanted and went and got out of it? Walked into the jungle, and comes out, the age of 21, and he's rich! The world is an oyster, but you don't crack it open on your mattress

Happy: Pop, i told you I'm gonna retire you for life

Willy: You'll retire me for life on seventy goddam dollars a week? And your women and your car and your apartment and you'll retire me for life! Christ's sake, i couldn't get past Yonkers today! Where are you guys, where are you? The Wood is burning! I can't drive a car! (1250)

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Biff: No, I'm mixed up very bad. Maybe I ought to get married. Maybe I ought to get stuck into something. Maybe that's my trouble. I'm like a boy. I'm not married. I'm not in business, I just-- I'm like a boy. Are you content, Hap? You're a success, aren't you? Are you content?

Happy: Hell, no!

Biff: Why? You're making money, aren't you?

(Pg 1241)

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Linda: You called him crazy... BIFF: I didn’t mean... LINDA: No, a lot of people think he’s lost his — balance. But you don’t have to be very smart to know what his trouble is. The man is exhausted.

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Willy: I'm not going to pay that man! That goddam Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the maufacture of that car!

Linda-Well, you owe him three and a half. And odds and ends, comes to around a hundred and twenty dollars by the fifteenth.

Willy- A hundred and twenty dollars! My God, if business don't pick up I don't know what I'm gonna do!

Linda- Well, next week you'll do better

Willy- Oh, I'll knock 'em dead next week.

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Biff: I'm not hateful, Mom.

Linda: But you sonner come in the door than you're fighting!

Biff: I don't know why. I mean to change. I'm tryin, Mom, you uderstand?

Linda: Are you home to stay now?

Biff: I don't know. I want to look around, see what's doin'.

Linda: Biff you can't look around all your life, can you?

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LINDA: He’ll find his way.

WILLY: Sure. Certain men just don’t get started till later in life. Like Thomas Edison, I think. Or B.F. Goodrich. One of them was deaf. I’ll put my money on Biff. (1238).

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Happy: He's always had respect for-

Biff: What the hell do you know about it?

Happy: Just don't call him crazy!

Biff: He's got no character--Charley wouldn't do this. Not in his own house-- spewing out that vomit from his hand.

Happy: Charley never had to cope with what he's got to.

Biff: People are worse off than Willy Loman. Believe me, I've seen them!

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Biff: Why does dad mock me all the time?

Happy: He just wants you to make good, that's all. I wanted to talk to you about Dad for a long time, Biff. Something's --happening to him. He--talks to himself.

Biff: I noticed that this morning. But he always mumbled. (1240)

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LINDA: I’m—I’m ashamed to. How can I mention it to him? Every day I go down and take away that little rubber pipe. But when he comes home, I put it back where it was. How can I insult him that way? I don’t know what to do. I live from day to day boys. I tell you, I know every thought in his mind. It sounds so old-fashioned and silly, but I tell you he’s put his whole life into you and you’ve turned your backs on him.Biff, I swear to God! Biff, his life is in your hands! (Act 1)

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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 casting off. It's always that way.

Willy- No, no, some people- some people accomplish something. Did Biff say anything after I went this morning?

Linda- You should'nt have criticized him, Willy, especially after he just got off the train. You mustn't lose your temper with him.

Willy- When the hell did I lose my temper? I simply asked him if he was making any money. Is that criticism?

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Happy: Pop, I told you I’m gonna retire you for life.

Willy: You’ll retire me for life on seventy goddam dollars a week? And your women and your car and your apartment, and you’ll retire me for life! Christ’s sake, I couldn’t get past Yonkers today! Where are you guys, where are you? The woods are burning! I can’t drive a car! (Act 1 1250)

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Willy: It don't leak, does it?

Linda: No, they did a wonderful job. Then you owe Frank for the carburetor.

Willy: I'm not going to pay that man! That goddamn Chevrolet, they ought to prohibit the manufacture of the car!

Linda: Well you owe him three and a half. And odds and ends, comes to around a hundred and twenty dollars by the fifteenth.

(Miller 1247)

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WILLY: where is Dad? didn't you follow him? How did you get started?

BEN: Well, i don't know how much you remember.

WILLY: Three years and eleven months.

WILLY: What a menory. Ben!

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Linda: No, Biff. You can't stay here and fight all the time.

Biff: He threw me out of this house, remember that.

Linda: WHy did he do that? I never knew why.

Biff: Because i know he's a fake and he doesn't like anybody around who knows!

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Willy:  Biff Loman is lost, In the greatest country in the world a you such- personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. Theres one thing about Biff- he's not lazy.

Linda: Never.

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Linda: Don't- don't go near him!

Biff: Stop making excuses for him! He always, always wiped he floor with you. Never had an ounce of respect for you.

Pg. 1257

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Willy: Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a you such-personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker. Theres 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. (Act 1- page 1237)

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Linda: "And then the closer you seem to come, the more shaky he gets, and then, by the time you get here, he's arguing, and he seems angry at you. I think it's just that maybe he can't bring himself to--to open up to you. Why are you so hateful to each other?"

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Willy: Biff is a lazy bum!

Linda: They're sleeping. Get something to eat. Go on down.

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.

(1237)

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Willy: I don't want change! I want Swiss cheese. Why am I always being contradicted?

Linda: [with a covering laugh] I thought it would be a suprise.

Willy: Why don't you open a window in here, for God's sake?

Linda: [with infinite patience] They're all open, dear.

(1238)

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Willy: Why do you always insult me?

Biff: I didn't say a word. [to Linda] Did I say a word?

Linda: He didn't say anything, WIlly

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charley: I offered you a job. You can make fifty dollars a week. And I won’t send you on the road.
willy: I’ve got a job.
charley: Without pay? What kind of a job is without pay? [He rises] Now look kid, enough is enough. I’m no genius but I know when I’m being insulted.
willy: Insulted!
charley: Why don’t you want to work for me?
willy: What’s the matter with you? I’ve got a job!

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LINDA: Then make Charley your father, Biff. You can’t do that, can you? I don’t say he’s a great man. Willy Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He’s not the finest character that ever lived. But he’s a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He’s not to be allowed to fall into his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person. You called him crazy— (Act 1)

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"Linda: No. You can't just come to see me, because I love him. [with a threat, but only a threat, of tears] He's the dearest man in the world to me, and I won't have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and blue. You've got to make up your mind now, darling, there's no leeway any more. Either he's your father and you pay him that respect, or else you're not to come here. I know he's not easy to get along with--nobody knows that better than me--but..."