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the elevator!LINDA: Well, don’t argue about it now.HAPPY: Like when you’d go off and swim in the middle of the dayinstead of taking the line around.BIFF (his resentment rising): Well, don’t you run off? You take offsometimes, don’t you? On a nice summer day?HAPPY: Yeah, but I cover myself!LINDA: Boys!HAPPY: If I’m going to take a fade the boss can call any numberwhere I’m supposed to be and they’ll swear to him that I justleft. I’ll tell you something that I hate so say, Biff, but in thebusiness world some of them think you’re crazy.BIFF (angered): Screw the business world!HAPPY: All right, screw it! Great, but cover yourself!LINDA: Hap, Hap.BIFF: I don’t care what they think! They’ve laughed at Dad foryears, and you know why? Because we don’t belong in thisnuthouse of a city! We should be mixing cement on some openplain or — or carpenters. A carpenter is allowed to whistle!(Willy walks in from the entrance of the house, at left.)WILLY: Even your grandfather was better than a carpenter.(Pause. They watch him.) You never grew up. Bernard does notwhistle in the elevator, I assure you.BIFF (as though to laugh Willy out of it): Yeah, but you do, Pop.WILLY: I never in my life whistled in an elevator! And who in thebusiness world thinks I’m crazy?BIFF: I didn’t mean it like that, Pop. Now don’t make a wholething out of it, will ya?WILLY: Go back to the West! Be a carpenter, a cowboy, enjoyyourself!LINDA: Willy, he was just saying...WILLY: I heard what he said!HAPPY (trying to quiet Willy): Hey, Pop, come on now...WILLY (continuing over Happy’s line): They laugh at me, heh? Goto Filene’s, go to the Hub, go to Slattery’s, Boston. Call out thename Willy Loman and see what happens! Big shot!