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Biff Loman

Death of Salesman

Arthur Miller

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Young Adult, Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Two
Time & Place
Brooklyn, New York. Late 1940s.
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Youth (Y)/General Audiences (G)

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Start: You know why I had no address for three months? I stole a suit in Kansas City and I was jailed. I stole myself out of every good job since high school.

[... ...]

End: Will you let me go, for Christ's sake? Will you take that phoney dream and burn it before something happens?

Editor's Note: This monologue excludes brief interjections that do not alter the flow of Biff's speech.

For full, extended monologue see:
Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Penguin Books, 1961, pp.104-5.

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