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 * 5 Minute Salesman!**

//(Linda and Willy Enter)//

Linda: Willy!

Willy: It's alright, I came back.

Linda: You didn't smash the car, did you?

Willy: I said nothing happened. Didn't you hear me?

Linda: But you didn't rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts dear.

Willy: Did Biff say anything after I went this morning?

Linda: You shouldn't have criticized him, Willy.

Willy: The trouble is he's lazy goddammit! Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such personal attractiveness, gets lost.

//(Willy and Linda exit, Biff and Happy are seen talking in their room.)//

Biff: Why does dad mock me all the time, Hap?

Happy: I think the fact that you're not settled, that you're still kind of up in the air.

Biff: Nevermind don't lay it all on me. Listen, why don't you come out West with me.

Happy: The Loman Brother's, heh?

Biff: I just got one idea that I think I'm going to try, remember Bill Oliver? I think I'll go see em'.

Happy: I bet he'd back you.

Biff: I wonder if Oliver still thinks I stole those footballs.

Happy: Shhh! You hear that?

//(Willy is heard mumbling in the parlor)//

Biff: That selfish, stupid...

//(Biff and Happy exit, Willy and Charley are seen playing poker in the dining room.)//

Willy: That's funny. For a second there you reminded me of my brother Ben. There was the only man I ever met who knew what he was talking about. The man knew what he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes out, and he's rich!

//(Charley leaves, and The Woman enters)//

The Woman: I picked you, Willy. I've been sitting at my desk watching all those salesmen go by. You've got such a good sense of humor and you do make me laugh. I think your a wonderful man //(kisses him)//

WIlly: Well I'll see you next time i'm in Boston. //(slaps her bottom)// Bottoms up!

(Will's Flashback ends, Linda is seen conversing with Biff)

Linda: 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 something terrible is happening to him.

Biff: It's because I know he's a fake and he doesn't like anybody around who knows!

//(Happy enters)//

Biff: I'll go see Bill Oliver tomorrow. Hap, if we could work out this Loman Brothers thing out... Bill Oliver did like me, always liked me.

Linda: He loved you!

//(Biff and Happy exit. The next morning Willy talks with Linda...)//

Linda: Biff came to me this morning, Willy, and he said, "Tell Dad, we want to blow him to a big meal." Be there six o' clock. You and your boys are going to have dinner!

WIlly: Gee whiz! That's really something. I'm gonna get an advance from Howard and knock em' for a loop!

//(Linda exits, enter Howard, Willy's boss.)//

Howard: You didn't crack up again did you?

Willy: No, I've come to the decision that I'd rather not travel anymore. You said you'd try and find a spot for me in town remember?

Howard: But where am I going to put you, kid?

Willy: If I had just 40 dollars a week... that's all I need.

Howard: Willy look... you can't go to Boston with us.

Willy: Are you firing me, Howard?

Howard: I think you need a good rest, Willy.

//(Howard exits and in walks Bernard. They then begin talking about Biff.)//

Willy: What... what's the secret? How did you? Why didn't he ever catch on?

Bernard: Willy, I remember it was June, and our grades came out. And he's flunked math. He wasn't beaten by it all by then. But I got the idea that he'd gone up to New England to see you. Did he talk with you then?

Willy: (with resentment) Yeah, he came to Boston, what about it? What do you mean, "what happpened?" what's that supposed to mean?

//(Bernard leaves and Charley enters, Willy then asks Charley about getting a loan.)//

Willy: Charley look... I got my insurance to pay. If you can manage it... I need a hundred and ten dollars.

Charley: I offered you a job! You could make 50 dollars a week and I wouldn't send you on the road!

Willy: I don't want your goddamn job!

//(everyone exits Happy and Biff enter)//

Happy: Did you see Oliver.

Biff: I saw him for about one minute. And then he gave me one look and... I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been! Hap... I took his fountain pen.

//(WIlly enters)//

Willy: Well what happened boy? Everything go altight?

Biff: Dad, who ever said I was a salesmen with Oliver? I was a shipping clerk.

Willy: No, no! You had to go flunk math! Math, math, math!

Biff: Dad what's the matter?

Willy: (strikes Biff) You rotten little louse! Are you spiting me?

//(willy exits)

(Willy has a flashback of the time when Biff came to visit him in Boston and saw The Woman in his room)

(Biff and Happy come home, Biff starts arguing with Willy)//

Biff: Alright you phony! Let's lay it all on the line! You're going to hear the truth... what you are and what I am! I stole myself out of every good job since highschool!

Willy: Then hang yourself for spite!

Biff: (crying) Will you let me go for christs sake! (Biff exits)

Willy: He cried to me, that boy is going to be amazing!

Linda: WIlly are you coming upstairs...? WIlly? (sound of car starting and speeding off!)

//(Everyone stands over Will's grave.)//