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DEATH OF A SALESMAN
Miss Forsythe, Letta Side
HAPPY
Hello, girls, sit down.
MISS FORSYTHE
I guess we might as well. This is Letta.
BIFF (Ignoring Willy) How’re ya, miss, sit down. What do you drink?
MISS FORSYTHE
Letta might not be able to stay long.
LETTA I gotta get up very early tomorrow. I got jury duty. I’m so excited! Were you fellows ever on a jury?
BIFF
No, but I been in front of them! (The girls laugh.) This is my father.
LETTA
Isn’t he cute? Sit down with us, Pop.
HAPPY
Sit him down, Biff!
BIFF (Going to him) Come on, slugger, drink us under the table. To hell with it! Come on, sit down, pal. (On Biffs last insistence, Willy is about to sit.)
LETTA
I think it’s sweet you bring your daddy along.
MISS FORSYTHE
Oh, he isn’t really your father!
BIFF (At left, turning to her resentfully) Miss Forsythe, you’ve just seen a prince walk by. A fine, troubled prince. A hardworking, unappreciated prince. A pal, you understand? A good companion. Always for his boys.
LETTA
That’s so sweet.
HAPPY
Well, girls, what’s the program? We’re wasting time. Come on, Biff. Gather round. Where would you like to go?
BIFF
Why don’t you do something for him?
HAPPY
Me!
BIFF
Don’t you give a damn for him, Hap?
HAPPY
What’re you talking about? I’m the one who-
BIFF
I sense it, you don’t give a good goddam about him. (He takes the rolled-up hose from his pocket and puts it on the table in front of Happy.) Look what I found in the cellar, for Christ’s sake. How can you bear to let it go on?
HAPPY
Me? Who goes away? Who runs off and —
BIFF
Yeah, but he doesn’t mean anything to you. You could help him — I can’t! Don’t you understand what I’m talking about? He’s going to kill himself, don’t you know that?
HAPPY
Don’t I know it! Me!
BIFF
Hap, help him! Jesus... help him... Help me, help me, I can’t bear to look at his face! (Ready to weep, Willy hurries out, up right.)
HAPPY
Where are you going?
MISS FORSYTHE
What’s he so mad about?
HAPPY Come on, girls, we’ll catch up with him.
