![]() Here we get a reasoning as to why the boys are acting the way they do–they have no idea what they’re doing with their lives. In fact, it’s these very job positions which influences their lost sense of mentality. Regardless, there’s gotta be something fishy with their job situations. Reading this, I’m beginning to think that maybe Happy and Biff don’t actually live primarily at this home, making them not as late as bloomers as I thought they were in my last blog post. HAPPY (with a deep and masculine laugh): About five hundred women would like to know what was said in this room. ![]() (He pats his bed affectionately.) All the talk that went across those two beds, huh? Our whole lives. HAPPY (with deep sentiment): Funny, Biff, y’know? Us sleeping in here again? The old beds. Happy casually reminisces with his brother about all the conversations shared between the two of them in their beds, just taking in all of their past. We get some pretty funny stuff in here, too. Sex, the meaning of life, women, inside jokes, all of the above. The two seemingly incompatible brothers honestly have great chemistry, as shown through their conversation after discussing about their father.Īnd ohhh yeah. The boys do what boys do at night–engaging in late night boy talk. Remember this guy from Back to the Future? Kinda what I picture Happy to look like, except obviously more sympathetic towards others. Kinda like a Biff Tannen sort of character. He’s the favorite son, yet, consequently, just like his brother, he feels lost in the emptiness of life. He’s the jock, the sex maniac, the guy who does stupid stuff and never gets caught–and he loves it. So while Biff is the geeky, quiet kid in the corner on his Gameboy, Happy is the kinda guy who steals your lunch money and gets away with it. Say it ain’t so! (Those were references.) Rivers Cuomo is the lead singer for one of my favorite bands, Weezer, and yeah–he looks just like Buddy Holly. (At least, not yet.) Basically, I see Biff like a Rivers Cuomo sorta dude, being the awkward nerdy counterpart to his brother. Biff is the more insecure, low self-esteemed, and irrational dreamer type of guy–wishing for great things, yet not carrying through with any of them. ![]() Getting some more characterization on the two sons, it’s revealed through exposition that Biff is 2 years older than Happy, them being 34 and 32, respectively. (Or at least he would’ve gotten them had this taken place in present day. Hopefully these accidents don’t keep up, or else he’s probably going to have some law enforced restrictions. The poor guy just can’t seem to get his own consciousness together. So obviously this isn’t the first time Willy has acted up while driving. “(To Biff) Jesus, maybe he smashed up the car again!” – Happy, Who is Mistaken Overhearing the conversation their parents are having about the car mishap which happened earlier in the day, Biff and Happy assume that all the vehicle talk imply their father getting into another accident. I like to think the ladder, but hey–it’s not my play. This would make every time the flute sounded an important reminder of his mental state… or just a fancy excuse for the play to have live music. Possibly, this inclusion of instrumental distraction could serve as an auditory aid to relating the audience to the slowly fading mind of Willy–putting our consciousness in line with his own distractions of the previously discussed potential Alzheimer’s. The flute is heard distantly.)” – An Interrupted Willy That a remarkable… (He breaks off in amazement and fright as (He stops.) Now isn’t that peculiar! Isn’t Just like in the very beginning of the play, with Willy’s grandiose sigh-entrance, Willy’s dialogue here at page ten is followed with the background noise of a flute. ![]() (Shh, yes, I know–I already read the whole passage upon writing this, so I know what happened. Hence the boys waking up, and later on going back to sleep after this scene ends. The play didn’t specify what time this all was happening at, so assumedly this has all been taking place at night. We open this next section of the play with the two Loman men offspring eavesdropping on their parents Willy and Linda. The Late Night Show with Happy and Biff Loman (The Death of a Salesman, pages 9-17) ![]()
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