Biff Key Quotes Act 2 Flashcards
How does Biff respond to Happy encouraging him to flirt with miss Forsythe?
“Oh, I could never make that”
What did Biff try and do to see Oliver?
“ tried to date his secretary so she’d get me to him”
What does Biff say him and his family are talking in?
“We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk”
What does Biff say he did when he grabbed Oliver’s pen?
“I ran out. I ran down all eleven flights. I ran and ran and ran”
What does Biff beg of Happy?
“Hap, help him! Jesus… Help him…Help me, help me”
Two quotes that show how Biff has lost respect for Willy after finding him with ‘The Woman’ referring to birnbaum
“He’d like you pop” “ he wouldn’t listen to you”
What does Biff call himself?
“The scum of all the earth, and your looking at him”
What does Biff say to Willy when directly confronting him on the rubber tube?
“What’s this supposed to do? Make a hero out of you”
What does Biff say Willy has done to him when raising him?
“ You blew me so full of hot air I could never stand taking orders from anybody”
What did Biff see when leaving Oliver’s building?
I saw - the sky. I saw the things, that I love in this world”
What does Biff tell Willy he and Willy are not?
“I am not a leader of men, Willy, and neither are you”
What does Biff say Willy should do with his capitalist American dream?
“Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?”
What does Biff say about Willy’s front stoop at the requiem?
“There’s more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made”
What does say about Willy’s choice of dream in the requiem?
“ He had the wrong dreams . All , all, wrong”
What look does Biff give Happy at the requiem?
“[with a hopeless glance at Happy]”
