Death of a salesman why is happy a womanizer




















Happy is encouraging, and reminds Biff that he is well liked. The boys are embarrassed to He is remembering a time when Biff and Happy , as young boys, helped him wash the car.

Happy tries to get Willy's attention, but Happy comes downstairs, distracting Willy from his memories. Happy tries to convince Willy to come upstairs Willy calls Biff and Happy into the room and asks Ben to tell them about their grandfather. Ben describes "a Willy leaves to go on a walk, though he is in his slippers. Biff and Happy join Linda downstairs and the three of them have a worried conversation about Willy's mental Linda says that Biff and Happy have been ungrateful to their father.

She says that Happy is a "philandering bum," and To diffuse Willy's anger, Happy announces that Biff is going to ask his old boss Bill Oliver to ask for Act 2. When Willy wakes the next morning, Biff and Happy have already gone, and Linda tells Willy that Biff is on his way to see When Biff arrives, Happy is flirting with an Once she is gone, Biff tells Happy that he waited in Bill Oliver's waiting room for six hours.

When Oliver finally came Biff tells Happy that he wants to confess all this to Willy, so that their father will know Happy begins to go along with Willy's assumptions about the Oliver meeting, but Biff continues to He and Happy are frightened by Willy's delusional behavior.

Trying to calm Willy down, Biff falls back on Happy 's strategy and lies: he tells Willy that Oliver is going to lend them the money Willy, in a daze, wanders off to the restroom. Biff berates Happy for not caring enough about Willy. He pulls the rubber hose that he found in Biff and Happy return home later that night. Happy has brought a bouquet of roses for Linda, but He charges Happy with making his job title sound more important than it is, and admits that he Linda and Happy assure Willy that Biff has always loved him.

Happy goes upstairs. Linda follows soon after. Happy also relishes the fact that "respectable" women cannot resist him. He thrives on sexual gratification, but even more than that, Happy savors the knowledge that he has "ruined" women engaged to men he works for and also despises. He states, "I hate myself for it. Because I don't want the girl, and, still, I take it and — I love it! Both deny their positions and exaggerate details in order to aggrandize themselves, and sexual interludes are the defining moments of both of their lives.

Willy's life revolves around his attempt to forget his affair with the Woman, while Happy's life revolves around an active pursuit of affairs with many women. Happy describes to Biff a fantasy scenario about their future.

Their parents, Willy and Linda, are also part of the conversation. Like Willy, Happy deceives himself with his own wishful thinking. Like Willy, Happy accepts lying as normal, even virtuous behavior, as long as it meets a need. Happy is speaking to one of the girls he and Biff have picked up in the restaurant. Willy, still suffering from being fired, has collapsed in the restroom. Biff has already rushed out, unable even to look at his father. Now Happy walks away from the problem of Willy in favor of a good time.

Happy and Biff Loman are in their old bedroom, sharing confidences as they did when they were boys. Happy is explaining that he is rather proud of his own selfishness. He lives for instant gratification, apparently oblivious to the consequences of his actions, which could actually end his career.



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