Death of a Salesman
Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller. It takes place in New York. It is about a man named Willy Loman. He has been traveling salesman for the Wagner Company for 34 years. He has a wife named Linda, and two sons named Biff and Happy. Happy lives in New York, and works in a department store. After 14 years, Biff finally comes home, looking for a job in New York. Willy is so happy that his sons are with him, that he decides to ask his Boss if he can have a job in New York, rather than New England. Instead, Willy gets fired. Willy then asks his friend Charley for fifty dollars, and Charley offers Willy a good job in New York. Willy refuses, and leaves to go meet his sons in a restaurant. Later on, after they have gone home, Willy commits suicide, because with the insurance money, he feels that Biff could be such a magnificent person. Willy Loman came back home after having left for New England one day. He is a traveling salesman for the Wagner Company. His
Willy goes to an old friend to borrow money. But Willy tells his boys he wants to hear something good, because he just got fired. When Willy gets to the restaurant, Biff tries to explain to him that he had never worked as a salesman with Oliver, and that he was only a shipping clerk. When Willy come out of the bathroom, he sees that his boys left. Later that night, Willy kills himself in a car accident. Howard tells him there is no room for Willy in New York, and then tells him that he can no longer work in New England because he is doing harm for the company. Happy suggests that Biff not tell Willy about it, and instead tell him a nice story instead. He is visiting in New York, and is staying with them. It is a book about the "common man being defeated by a society which drains the common man of his energy, and then drops him". Biff starts crying, and then Willy sees that he was wrong when he thought that Biff had been intentionally hateful towards him. Willy leaves and goes to the bathroom. Now that Biff is in New York, him and his brother Happy are trying to think of a job that Biff could get in New York. He leaves the restaurant, and goes to the store to look for seeds. He asks about their son Biff, who hasn't been home in over 14 years. Oliver, a man Biff used to work for.
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