Willy Loman has been a traveling salesman for Wagner Company for thirty-four years. He likes to think of himself vital to the New England territory. Long ago Willy met a salesman named Dave Singleton who would go into a town and pick up a phone without leaving his hotel room. When this man died, people from all over the country came to his funeral. This is whom Willy wanted to be Dave Singleton; this was also a part of the reason that Willy became a salesman.

In the beginning of the play, Willy has just come back home after having left for New England that morning. He tells his wife, he just can't seem to keep his mind on driving anymore. He asks about his favorite son Biff, who has just come back home for a visit after being away for a long time. Willy son, Biff was considered to be an American dream teenager. Biff was a great football player; many universities offered him scholarships. But during that year Biff failed math and had gone to Boston to tell his father the devastating news. When Biff reaches Willy¡¦s hotel room in Bos

In this play Willy is a character, who only wants to live in his own world. He sees what he wants to see and avoids the rest. He puts on a mask when he is around his family members. This can be seen through when he borrows from Charley the fifty dollars a week, in which he brings home to his family as his salary. Willy¡¦s idol Dave Singleman was able to stay in his hotel room, where he telephoned buyers and sold a tremendous amount of merchandise without leaving his room. When he died buyer and salesman from all over the country came to his funeral. Thus, Willy saw one case where personality and being well liked paid off. He than has been trying to imitate Dave Singleman. However, Willy only saw the surface of Dave Singleman, he does not know the work that Dave Singleman puts in, in order to deserve his rightful place in society.

After 14 years, Biff returns home. He and his younger brother Happy try to think of some job that Biff could get and settle down in New York. They think about a man that Biff used to work for named Bill Oliver. Biff wants to ask Mr. Oliver for a loan of ten thousand dollars to begin a business in New York. They tell Willy about their plans, and Willy thinks that together they can conquer the world. He tells Biff that Mr. Oliver always thought highly of him and reminds Biff that the most important thing in life is to be well liked.

ton. Biff finds his father having an affair with a strange woman. After this episode Biff has held a grudge against his father and could never again bring himself to trust his father.

However, when Biff sees his father with another woman, Biff views his father as a fake. But there is no real discussion or explanation between the two about what Willy did and what Biff saw. Instead, Biff stayed away in Willy¡¦s life for fourteen years. As for Willy, he continues to plug along with his job as a salesman, except now he lives only in his illusions, he no longer can count on Biff to fulfill his dream.

Biff and Happy's futures were all depended on the way they were brought up. Willy was the only one with any say in the way the kids were brought up. Linda went along with whatever Willy said. Willy taught them that if they were handsome and successful, opportunity would come to you. Happy learned nothing from Willy's demise but insists that his father had "the only dream you can have- to come out number-one man". Biff and Happy idolized their father when they were young. The stories they were told made them picture their father as a popular, successful, well-known salesman. As Biff grew up, he found himself being told things about his father like "A salesman has to dream, it comes with the territory." At the end of the story when Linda says they we free, Biff is free to realize his dream of owning a ranch in West, where he can live close to the natural world. Biff also realizes that his father had the wrong dreams and didn't know who he was. Biff is sure he won't make the same mistakes his father did. Meanwhile, Happy is more like his dad, determined to stay in town and prove himself to everyone. Having Biff acknowledge the dishonesty of his own life, insists on the end of their phony dream.

Biff, in Linda¡¦s words, has not found himself, despite his age. He is much less self-assured than his br

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