After this event Biff doesn't have the will to finish school, and doesn't get his scholarship to Virginia. Biff never can get over it, he bounces from job to job and can never seem to settle down. Every time Biff returns home there is tension between Willy and his son.
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Happy: Why don't you bring her–excuse me, miss, do you mind? I sell champagne, and I'd like you to try my brand. Bring her a champagne, Stanley.
This line best represents Happy's character. This line takes place when Biff and Happy are taking Willy out for supper. Willy has just lost his job and Biff has been turned down by Oliver. However Happy's only concern is about the woman sitting next to him. He has nothing comforting to say to his father so he tries to interest the woman. Happy is a woman's man, he cares more about material things, than he does about his own father. Happy also uses lies to make his life sound so much better. Happy doesn't sell champagne, but his uses this item to talk to the woman. Happy lack of interest toward his father can be attributed to the lack of interest Willy showed toward him. Happy could never impress his father so he lies to impress women and other people.
Part B:.
ACT ONE.
Willy: It's all right. I came back.
Linda: You didn't smash the car, did you?.
Willy: I'm tired to the death. I couldn't make it. I just couldn't make it, Linda.
Linda: Willy, dear. Talk to them again. There's no reason why you can't work in New York.
Willy: I will, I definitely will.
Linda: happy took Biff on a date tonight. .
Willy: Figure it out. Work a lifetime to pay off a house. You finally own it, and there's nobody to live in it.
Linda: Biff's finding himself, Willy.
Willy: The trouble is he's lazy, goddammit!.
Linda: I don't know. I think he's still lost, Willy. I think he's very lost.
Willy: Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such–personal attractiveness, gets lost.
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