You leave the house tomorrow and come back at night and say Oliver is thinking it over. And he thinks it over for a couple of weeks, and gradually it fades away and nobody’s the worse…Dad is never so happy as when he’s looking forward to something!
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. Happy advises Biff to lie to their father about his disastrous meeting with Bill Oliver, after he failed to secure a loan to go into business. Like with Willy, lying has become second nature to Happy.