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The script for death of a salesman
The script for death of a salesman








the script for death of a salesman

LINDA, giving him the handkerchief: And a handkerchief. WILLY, feels for them, then comes back in: Yeah, yeah, got my glasses. LINDA, calling after him as she runs to the kitchen table for a handkerchief: You got your glasses? LINDA: It’s changing, Willy, I can feel it changing! WILLY: I will never get behind a wheel the rest of my life! I’ll get an advance, and I’ll come home with a New York job. WILLY: Gee whiz! That’s really somethin’. You and your two boys are going to have dinner. 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. LINDA: At Frank’s Chop House on Forty-eighth near Sixth Avenue. LINDA, suddenly remembering: Oh, I forgot! You’re supposed to meet them for dinner. If only Biff would take this house, and raise a family. WILLY: What purpose? Some stranger’ll come along, move in, and that’s that. WILLY: All the cement, the lumber, the reconstruction I put in this house! There ain’t a crack to be found in it any more. To weather a twenty-five year mortgage is. LINDA: Biff was nine years old when we bought it. After this payment, Willy, the house belongs to us. But that includes the last payment on the mortgage. LINDA, buttoning up his jacket as he unbuttons it: All told, about two hundred dollars would carry us, dear.

the script for death of a salesman

They time them so when you finally paid for them, they’re used up. The refrigerator consumes belts like a goddam maniac. WILLY Whoever heard of a Hastings refrigerator? Once in my life I would like to own something outright before it’s broken! I’m always in a race with the junkyard! I just finished paying for the car and it’s on its last legs. Charley bought a General Electric and it’s twenty years old and it’s still good, that son-of-a-bitch. WILLY: I told you we should’ve bought a well-advertised machine. LINDA: And you got one more payment on the refrigerator. LINDA: Well, you had the motor job on the car. LINDA: And Willy, don’t forget to ask for a little advance, because we’ve got the insurance premium. LINDA, getting him into the jacket: He didn’t mention it, but I imagine ten or fifteen thousand. Did he decide how much he’s going to ask Oliver for? WILLY: I could build two guest houses, so they’d both come. ’Cause I got so many fine tools, all I’d need would be a little lumber and some peace of mind. WILLY: And they’ll get married, and come for a weekend. WILLY: You wait, kid, before it’s all over we’re gonna get a little place out in the country, and I’ll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens. Gee, on the way home tonight I’d like to buy some seeds. WILLY: There’s no question, no question at all. There’s no question, there simply are certain men that take longer to getsolidified.










The script for death of a salesman