Tuesday, August 9, 2011
I picked up right where Willy enters the restaurant for his dinner with Biff and Happy. Biff had planned to lie to Willy about his meeting with Oliver, but he ends up telling him exactly what happened, including how he stole the pen. In the middle of Happy choking the story out of Biff, Willy has another one of his flashback hallucinations, this one about a younger Bernard running to the Loman house to tell them about Biff failing math, meaning he couldn't get his diploma until he went to summer school, and as Willy was living this memory, Biff was trying to tell him what happened with Oliver. Willy is completely in the present for a few moments but then he is fully living in a memory of Biff coming to see him while he was away on business, while his Sons leave with dates. Willy actually is cheating on Linda, and it is with The Woman. Biff's discovery of this is probably why he didn't go to summer school. When the boys get home they have a fight with Linda about leaving willy at the restaurant. They agree to leave the house permanently, so Biff goes outside to tell Willy. That is when Willy gets very angry and that leads to the big fight in the kitchen. Willy is trying to convince Biff that he can be successful and that he is going to be a very important man, while Biff is saying that they are both just one of the crowd, and that he himself is a failure. He wants Willy to accept that he doesn't want to be a salesman and he wants Willy to just let him be about his life. Biff is very angry and ready to attack Willy, but right when he is about to, he bursts out crying, and they seem to have made up. Willy's happiness about Biff not hating him doesn't stop Willy from having a very distressing hallucination. He seems to hear voices and see faces everywhere, swarming him, so he gets in his car and wrecks himself dead. Happy is determined to be successful to prove that Willy did not die in vein. Linda is in some sort of denial, even though she knows that Willy is dead, she just can't get used to the idea, and she can't cry.
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