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===Willy Loman, a salesman in the New England area, returns to his home in Brooklyn one night, exhausted from a failed sales trip. Willy talks with his family, and upset that he has to constantly travel throughout the area, he decides that he will ask his boss to change areas the next day. Willy talks to his wife about current issues and the fact that he has not seen his sons succeed in life yet. Biff and his younger brother, Happy, who is also visiting, reminisce about their adolescence and discuss their father’s babbling, which often includes criticism of Biff’s failure to live up to Willy’s expectations.=== ===The following day, Willy is supposed to meet the two boys for dinner. He is so excited to have his boys on the brink of success that he decides to ask for a job in New York City. Howard Wagner, the present owner of the Wagner Company founded by his father, tells Willy that there is no room for him in New York, and then explains to Willy that he cannot represent the firm in New England either because he has become detrimental to business. Willy is now forced to go to Charley to borrow enough money to pay his insurance premium. It has been revealed that Willy has been borrowing fifty dollars each week for a long time and pretending it is his salary. Even though Charley offers Willy a good job in New York, Willy refuses to accept it because he says he can't work for Charley. Willy takes the money and leaves to meet his sons at the restaurant.=== ===Biff and Happy meet in the restaurant and Biff tells Happy that he hasn't been doing right in life, and he has been making bad decisions and losing jobs. Biff even tells Happy that he steals things too often, and does not have an attitude to fit the job, so he is regularly fired. Biff even admits that he stole a pen from Bill Oliver's desk, the man who he asked to lend him a large sum of money. When Willy arrives he tells the boys that he has been fired and he is very upset and angered by this situation. Willy sits there and pretends that he has another appointment the following day, but his anger overrides him and he has to vanish to the bathroom to prevent causing a scene. Biff, angered that his father can not even control his own destiny, leaves. Happy who has picked up two girls, leaves the restaurant also and his father, Willy, is left to eat alone.=== ===Following that night, Biff comes home and finds Willy talking to an imaginary image of his brother, Ben, who he has not seen in a number of years. (Ben ran off to Alaska many years ago and is presumed to be dead) Willy is planting in the back yard while this takes place and Biff comes out to talk to him. Biff exclaims to his father that he will never live up to his father's expectations in life, and he does not want to see him sad at this. Biff says that they should break apart and never see each other again. Willy wont accept the fact that his son is an ordinary human being and still thinks his son has the potential to be great, to stand for something. Biff tries once again to explain that he is no longer a leader of men and that he is just a common person who has no outstanding qualities. He does not want to see his father because he does not want to bear that he has disappointed his father in life.=== ===Willy refuses to accept the fact that Biff doesn't believe in himself and also wont allow Biff to just walk out of the family. Biff becomes frustrated that his own father wont accept him for who he really is, an ordinary man. He finally breaks down and sobs to Willy to forget him and move on in his life without him. Then, Willy is touched that his son begins to show emotion towards him and his aspect in life. Willy knows that if he dies, twenty thousand dollars of insurance money will go to his son, Biff. Willy knows that this is the money Biff needs to succeed in life. Willy crashes his car and causes his own death. It is seen that Willy Lowman dies a forgotten man, and nobody ever cared for him. Only his family showed up to his own funeral, and in the end, Biff never received the money because Willy's death was by suicide.===