Quote 13
Keller: You lay forty years into a business and they knock you out in five minutes, what could I do, let them take forty years, let them take my life away? (2.542)
Joe explains his position at length. He's really hoping Chris will come around, see things his way, say: "Yes, you did the right thing, Dad. Thanks for saving the business for me."
Quote 14
Keller: She's dreaming about him again. She's walking around at night. (1.162)
Keller is frustrated by his wife's stubborn refusal to accept the death of their son Larry.
Quote 15
Keller: Goddam, if Larry was alive he wouldn't act like this. He understood the way the world was made. He listened to me. To him the world had a forty-foot front, it ended at the building line. (3.77)
Joe's image of his dead son's worldview is about to be refuted, in a big way, by the reading of his suicide note.