Well, he left, see. And the secretary went out. I was all alone in the waiting-room. I don’t know what came over me, Hap. The next thing I know I’m in his office – paneled walls, everything. I can’t explain it. I – Hap, I took his fountain pen.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. Biff confesses to Happy that after his disastrous meeting with Bill Oliver who couldn’t remember him, he steals his former boss’s fountain pen. The pen is a symbol of Oliver’s wealth and the American dream that Biff will never achieve for himself.