I don’t know what the hell I’m workin’ for. Sometimes I sit in my apartment – all alone. And I think of the rent I’m paying. And it’s crazy. But then, it’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. Happy Loman appears to have it all: he earns good money in his job, has his own apartment, owns a car and enjoys all the girls he could ever want. But in this speech to his brother Biff he reveals his loneliness and disillusionment with an American Dream based on material success. It is not enough to satisfy him and there is a hole in his life. It is ironic that Miller should choose the name Happy for someone who is far from that.