"Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all." Act 2, Part 7, pg. Willy thinks that his plan is perfect because Biff will realize that he was wrong about his dad. But Willy insists that being nothing the rest of his life would be worse than what he has in mind. Ben warns Willy that the insurance company might not honor the policy and that what's he's thinking of is a cowardly thing to do. He tells his brother that Linda has suffered so much and that a man's life has to add up to something, so he's come up with a plan to make his life worth a guaranteed $20,000. Willy stops his measuring when Ben appears at right, moving towards him. Willy has a flashlight, hoe, and some seed packets and is measuring off the distance with his foot as he reads the planting directions on the packets. Biff goes outside, and Linda follows him as the light fades on them and comes up on Willy in the center of the front of the stage. Linda won't tell Biff where his father is, but when Biff hears hammering outside, she tells him that Willy's making a garden, even though it's the middle of the night. Hap, after being yelled at again, goes upstairs, and Biff and Linda are left in the kitchen. Biff, looking into the living room and his parents' bedroom, insists on talking to Willy before he goes. Linda orders the boys to leave and not come back. Hap tries to play off her anger, but both she and Biff tell him to shut up. He says they met some girls and they got her some flowers, but she's so mad at the boys for deserting their father that she throws the roses at Biff's feet as he stands inside the kitchen doorway. He keeps backing to the right as she silently appears in the living room doorway and asks where they were. Hap freezes in the doorway and as she walks toward him he backs into the kitchen and seems afraid. Hap has roses for his mom, and he goes into the kitchen to find her, and then looks into the living room where she's sitting with Willy's jacket in her lap. Biff and Hap appear at the door of the house. The light fades.Īfter a long pause, the sound of a flute plays softly as the light rises on the empty kitchen. Willy heads to a hardware store to get seeds for planting a garden. Willy, sad and dejected, offers the waiter some money, but the waiter puts it back in Willy's jacket pocket. Willy was yelling when the waiter came in and told him that the boys left with the girls they found.
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