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Hap Loman Monologue
Slow keys of the piano are being heard. Out of the dark, a silhouette of HAPPY emerges, carrying a suitcase and a bouquet of cheap flowers. As he approaches a middle of the stage, we see the white tiles of the New York metro behind him. He doesn't move any further, but puts the suitcase and the bouquet on the ground and stands with a hazy look focused on whatever that is in front of him. From the other side, a COLLEAGUE appears.

COLLEAGUE: The hell hath frozen! Since when does Hap Loman travel by a subway?
HAPPY (wakes out of the haze, looks around): Don! So good to see you! I'm running an errand, y'know.
COLLEAGUE: At this time of night? I'd thought that you are partyin' over the good news!
HAPPY: Eh, I'm just going to see some girl my …show more content…
HAPPY (frowning): I need to focus on my future, now that I have one. Find some boring wife for the meetings...
BIFF (behind the stage, angrily): You're full of it!
HAPPY: I will give your departure a reason, Pop. I will finish what you weren't able to...
BIFF: Screw the business world!
HAPPY: I will prove who I really am...
BIFF (resigned): I know who I am, kid.
HAPPY (louder, ecstatic) : Everything is going to change now. Just like it was supposed to change after Pop's funeral. And when I got my job at the shop. (Laughs humorlessly.) But I'm gonna show them this time. This moment, this moment is different. I feel it. The circumstances... the circumstances... (Laughs loudly.)
(An increasing sound of an incoming train is heard in the distance)
HAPPY (lifting up the suitcase, murmuring): Everything is different. Everyone is gone. Everything is different. Everything is gone... (frantic) And for what?
(Laughing in an insane manner, HAPPY is heading towards the edge of a stage. The sound of train is very loud, yet the laughter still resounds. The only thing left on the stage is the bouquet, lying carelessly on the ground. As the train is heard to be leaving, the lights
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