WILLY: You don’t want to be anything, is that what’s behind it?…Are you spiting me?
BIFF: Don’t take it that way! Goddammit!
WILLY (strikes Biff and falters away from the table): You rotten little louse! Are you spiting me?
THE WOMAN: Someone’s at the door, Willy!…Willy are you going to answer the door!
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. Willy is convinced that Biff’s business failure with Bill Oliver is a personal betrayal. He believes that it is a bid to punish him for his own betrayal of Linda through a love affair he had in Boston. Willy’s deep-rooted feelings of guilt are evident here. He is actually in a restaurant having dinner with his sons. But in his imagination he is transported back in time to Boston, where he hears the voice of his lover, The Woman, calling out when the young high school Biff appears at their hotel bedroom door and discovers the affair. Willy lashes out at the grown-up Biff and calls him a "louse."