| WILLY. |
WILLY. Loaded with it. Loaded!
What is he stealing? He’s giving it back, isn’t he?
Why is he stealing? What did I tell him? I never in my life told
him anything but decent things.
Happy in pajamas has come down the stairs;
Willy suddenly becomes aware of Happy‘s presence. |
| HAPPY. |
Let’s go now, come
on. |
| WILLY. |
(sitting down at the
kitchen table). Huh! Why did she have to wax the floors herself?
Every time she waxes the floors she keels over. She knows that!
|
| HAPPY. |
Shh! Take it easy. What
brought you back tonight? |
| WILLY. |
I got an awful scare. Nearly
hit a kid in Yonkers. God! Why didn’t I go to Alaska with
my brother Ben that time! Ben! That man was a genius, that man was
success incarnate! What a mistake! He begged me to go. |
| HAPPY. |
Well, there’s no use
in - - |
| WILLY. |
You guys! There was a man
started with the clothes on his back and ended up with diamond mines!
|
| HAPPY. |
Boy, someday I’d like
to know how he did it. |
| WILLY. |
What’s the mystery? He knew what
he wanted and went out and got it! Walked into a jungle, and comes
out, the age of twenty-one, and he’s rich! The world is an
oyster, but you don’t crack it open on a mattress! |
| HAPPY. |
Pop, I told you I’m gonna retire
you for life. |
| WILLY. |
You’ll retire me for life on seventy
goddammned dollars a week? And your women and your car and your
apartment, and you’ll retire me for life! Christ’s sake,
I couldn’t get past Yonkers today! Where are you guys? Where
are you? The woods are burning! I can’t drive a car! |