Death of a Salesman

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BEN: Yeah? (To Biff.) Hit that, boy — hard as you can. (Hepounds his stomach.)BIFF: Oh, no, sir!BEN (taking boxing stance): Come on, get to me! (He laughs)WILLY: Go to it, Biff! Go ahead, show him!BIFF: Okay! (He cocks his fists and starts in.)LINDA (to Willy): Why must he fight, dear?BEN (sparring with Biff): Good boy! Good boy!WILLY: How’s that, Ben, heh?HAPPY: Give him the left, Biff!LINDA: Why are you fighting?BEN: Good boy! (Suddenly comes in, trips Biff, and stands overhim, the point of his umbrella poised over Biffs eye.)LINDA: Look out, Biff!BIFF: Gee!BEN (Patting Biffs knee): Never fight fair with a stranger, boy.You’ll never get out of the jungle that way. (Taking Linda’shand and bowing.) It was an honor and a pleasure to meet you,Linda.LINDA (withdrawing her hand coldly, frightened): Have a nicetrip.BEN (to Willy): And good luck with your — what do you do?WILLY: Selling.BEN: Yes. Well... (He raises his hand in farewell to all.)WILLY: No, Ben, I don’t want you to think... (He takes Ben’s armto show him) It’s Brooklyn, I know, but we hunt too.BEN: Really, now.WILLY: Oh, sure, there’s snakes and rabbits and — that’s why Imoved out here. Why Biff can fell any one of these trees in notime! Boys! Go right over to where they’re building the apartmenthouse and get some sand. We’re gonna rebuild the entirefront stoop right now! Watch this, Ben!BIFF: Yes, sir! On the double, Hap!HAPPY (as he and Biff run off): I lost weight, Pop, you notice?(Charley enters in knickers, even before the boys are gone.)
CHARLEY: Listen, if they steal any more from that building thewatchman’ll put the cops on them!LINDA (to Willy): Don’t let Biff...(Ben laughs lustily.)WILLY: You shoulda seen the lumber they brought home lastweek. At least a dozen six-by-tens worth all kinds a money.CHARLEY: Listen, if that watchman...WILLY: I gave them hell, understand. But I got a couple of fearlesscharacters there.CHARLEY: Willy, the jails are full of fearless characters.BEN (clapping Willy on the back, with a laugh at Charley): Andthe stock exchange, friend!WILLY (joining in Ben’s laughter): Where are the rest of yourpants?CHARLEY: My wife bought them.WILLY: Now all you need is a golf club and you can go upstairsand go to sleep. (To Ben.) Great athlete! Between him and hisson Bernard they can’t hammer a nail!BERNARD (rushing in): The watchman’s chasing Biff!WILLY (angrily): Shut up! He’s not stealing anything!LINDA (alarmed, hurrying off left): Where is he? Biff, dear! (Sheexits.)WILLY (moving toward the left, away from Ben): There’s nothingwrong. What’s the matter with you?BEN: Nervy boy. Good!WILLY (laughing): Oh, nerves of iron, that Biff!CHARLEY: Don’t know what it is. My New England man comesback and he’s bleeding, they murdered him up there.WILLY: It’s contacts, Charley, I got important contacts!CHARLEY (sarcastically): Glad to hear it, Willy. Come in later,we’ll shoot a little casino. I’ll take some of your Portlandmoney. (He laughs at Willy and exits.)WILLY (turning to Ben): Business is bad, it’s murderous. But notfor me, of course.BEN: I’ll stop by on my way back to Africa.
Page 5: closes the door, then carries his c
Page 8 and 9: LINDA: Shh!WILLY: The trouble is he
Page 11: He stops at a green light and then
Page 14 and 15: BIFF: Sure, maybe we could buy a ra
Page 16 and 17: HAPPY: I bet he’d back you. Cause
Page 20 and 21: there’ll be open sesame for all o
Page 22 and 23: WILLY: Sweetheart!LINDA: How’d th
Page 24 and 25: people don’t seem to take to me.(
Page 26 and 27: WILLY: Well, I’ll see you next ti
Page 28 and 29: WILLY: What’s the mystery? The ma
Page 30 and 31: CHARLEY: Yeah, that’s a piece of
Page 32 and 33: BEN: When did Mother die?WILLY: Lon
Page 36 and 37: WILLY (longingly): Can’t you stay
Page 38 and 39: closer you seem to come, the more s
Page 40 and 41: HAPPY: But I gave you money last...
Page 42 and 43: BIFF: Why not?LINDA: Last month...
Page 44 and 45: BIFF: All right, Pop.WILLY: Big!BIF
Page 46 and 47: You are not applying for a boy’s
Page 48 and 49: around.(Biff and Happy enter the be
Page 50 and 51: ACT TWOMusic is heard, gay and brig
Page 52 and 53: WILLY: It’s twenty-five years!LIN
Page 54 and 55: smile. That’s the boy... Good-by,
Page 56 and 57: WILLY: I’m definitely going to ge
Page 58 and 59: e more satisfying than to be able t
Page 60 and 61: HOWARD: This is no time for false p
Page 62 and 63: WILLY: Without a penny to his name,
Page 64 and 65: CHARLEY: Baseball in this weather?W
Page 66 and 67: et.BERNARD: They are, very nice. Da
Page 68 and 69: BERNARD: Well, just that when he ca
Page 70 and 71: CHARLEY: Without pay? What kind of
Page 72 and 73: like to see a lotta action around t
Page 74 and 75: GIRL: Oh, a lot of them. (She takes
Page 76 and 77: BIFF: He walked away. I saw him for
Page 78 and 79: ut I was never a salesman for Bill
Page 80 and 81: Bernard enters and knocks on the do
Page 82 and 83: BIFF (desperately, standing over Wi
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WILLY: The washroom... the door...
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in here. Maybe the hotel’s on fir
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(Biff slowly sits down on his suitc
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oy.STANLEY: Oh, no, you don’t hav
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things together! (To Biff.) You can
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whole beauty of it! I see it like a
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know, and you don’t care. That wa
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them, her hands covering her face.)
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(Willy turns, moves, listening to B
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their jackets. Linda slowly walks o
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salesman. And for a salesman, there
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