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The next day, Willy goes to his boss, Howard Wagner, to request him for placement close to home. This idea pleases Willy, who, in turn, gives some incoherent and conflicting advice to his sons. The boys get chagrined at themselves that they could not bring comfort to their father Biff immediately decides to join his brother’s sports goods business and he’d go and talk to his old acquaintance for business funding. She tells them about his failed suicide attempts as well. Disturbed by Willy’s present state, Linda discusses his deteriorating mental state with his sons.

This comparison adds more to his miserable state, making him think that he is not capable of achieving success in life. Willy and Ben’s father abandoned them and Willy compares himself with his successful brother and regrets it. Once again Willy drives back in time when he thinks about his brother Ben, who left home at seventeen and made quite a fortune in Alaska and Africa. Yet the same neighbor once offered him a job but he refused despite the fact that he used to borrow money from him to cover household expenses and his son Bernard who was kind of a nerd in school, is now a successful lawyer. Willy always thought that his son’s rising high school football achievements would offer him university scholarships and make him a successful man.

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Compared with his successful neighbor, Charley and his son, Bernard, Willy’s family is more determined and full of the natural charisma required for success.

His flashbacks make the readers familiar with his philosophy of success that has derived him to his current unsuccessful state. Also, she reminds him not to be critical or judgmental toward Biff, but Willy expresses his resentment over Biff’s lazy approach toward life.Īlone in the kitchen, Willy plunges back in time and remembers old times when his sons were young and idealized their father as an upright man. Then, Linda and Willy start talking about their sons Biff and Happy, who are out for a date and are expected to be home soon. Willy consents to request his boss the next day. He seems sick of daily travels, while Linda, consoles him and suggests that he should ask his boss, Howard Wagner, to get a placement that demands less travel. The play begins when Willy comes home exhausted from a failed trip with his mind full of tensions and worries.

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