![]() What are you talking about? You’re not even sixty, Mom. You’re such a boy! You think you can go away for a year and … You’ve got to get it into your head now that one day you’ll knock on this door and there’ll be strange people here -īIFF. Dye it again, will ya? I don’t want my pal looking old. I just stopped dyeing it, that’s all.īIFF. Oh, it’s been gray since you were in high school. Biff, a man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime.īIFF. ![]() I can’t take hold of some kind of a life. Biff, you can’t look around all your life, can you?īIFF. Playwriting doesn’t get much better than that.ĮXCERPT FROM Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller: I mean, some of her lines … I merely read them to myself, and I feel a ginormous lump in my throat … Extraordinary. ![]() The excerpt below is the famous scene (although they’re all famous scenes, I guess) where Linda, Willy Loman’s wife, castigates her son Biff for how he treats his father. It gives me chills – no matter how many times I read it. Although I will link to this a post where I excerpt Miller’s autobiography about the life-changing opening of the first production of Death of a Salesman. Death of a Salesman (Penguin Plays) by Arthur Miller. ![]()
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