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• #Death of a salesman biff monologue full

We’ve got quite a little streak of self-reliance in our family. Oh, yeah, my father lived many years in Alaska. See, there were three gold strikes in one month in Alaska, and I felt like going out. Because in those days I had a yearning to go to Alaska. And there was a question in my mind as to whether selling had a future for me. When I was a boy, eighteen, nineteen, I was already on the road. Willy: Business is definitely business, but just listen for a minute. Will you let me go, for Christ’s sake? Will you take that phoney dream andburn it before something happens? Can’t you understand that? There’s no spite in it any more. You werenever anything but a hard-working drummer who landed in the ash-can like all the restof them! I’m one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried seven states and couldn’t raise it! A buck anhour! Do you gather my meaning? I’m not bringing home any prizes any more, andyou’re going to stop waiting for me to bring them home! Pop, I’m nothing! I’m nothing,Pop. And I looked at the pen and said to myself, what the hell am I grabbing this for?Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be? What am I doing in an office,making a contemptuous, begging fool of myself, when all I want is out there, waiting forme the minute I say I know who I am! Why can’t I say that, Willy? Pop! I’m a dime adozen, and so are you! I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you. The work and the food and the time to sit andsmoke. Isaw the things that I love in the world. And suddenly I stopped, you hear me? And in the middle of that officebuilding, do you hear this? I stopped in the middle of that building and I saw – the sky.

#Death of a salesman biff monologue full

And I never gotanywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders fromanybody! That’s whose fault it is! It’s goddamn time you heard that! I had to be boss bigshot in two weeks, and I’m through with it! Willy! I ran down eleven flights with a pen inmy hand today.

I stole myself out of every good job since high school. You know why I had no address for three months? I stole a suit in Kansas City and Iwas jailed. Summary: Biff, who has been living in his father’s shadow for his whole life, finally confronts his old man about the realities of his work prospects and his desire to be freed from his father’s unrealistic expectations of him.īIFF: Now hear this, Willy, this is me. In honor of the great Arthur Miller and all he has done for theater we have put together an incredible list of Arthur Miller Monologues from some of his most iconic plays. Working on monologues will only hone your craft and work that muscle which will translate into better character work and even scene work.

As a working actor or actor in training you should almost certainly work on some or all of Arthur Miller’s great plays and really familiarize yourself with some of the iconic monologues. With all these incredible works and characters come really beautiful and timely monologues. One of the greatest American Playwrights of all time Arthur Miller has penned some of the most iconic theater characters of all time like Willie Lowman from Death Of A Saleman.