Biff tries to tell him what happened as Willy gets angry and slips into a flashback of what happened in Boston the day Biff came to see him. Happy tries to get Biff to lie to their father. Happy, Biff, and Willy meet for dinner at a restaurant, but Willy refuses to hear bad news from Biff.
Willy then goes to Charley's office where he runs into Bernard (now a successful lawyer), who tells him that Biff originally wanted to do well in summer school, but something happened in Boston when Biff went to visit Willy that changed his mind. Biff impulsively steals a fountain pen (an expensive symbol of status worth far more than a ball point pen). Biff waits hours to see a former employer who does not remember him and turns him down. Willy gets angry and ends up getting fired when the boss tells him he needs a rest and can no longer represent the company. The next day, Willy goes to ask his boss for a job in town while Biff goes to make a business proposition, but neither is successful. When Willy walks in, angry that the two boys have never amounted to anything, Biff and Happy tell Willy that Biff plans to make a business proposition the next day in an effort to pacify their father. They discuss their father's mental degeneration, which they have witnessed by his constant vacillations and talking to himself. Despite Biff's promise as an athlete in high school, he flunked senior year math and never went to college.īiff and his brother, Happy, who is also visiting, reminisce about their childhood together. Willy complains to Linda that their son, Biff, has yet to make good on his life. Worried over Willy's state of mind and recent car "crashes", his wife Linda suggests that he ask his boss Howard Wagner to allow him to work in his home city so he will not have to travel. Willy Loman returns home exhausted after an aborted business trip.
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