Willy and his wife, Linda, have a good marriage. Ben leaves, even though Willy begs him to stay with him for a while. He made his money working in the diamond mines in Africa. All Ben will tell him, is he walked into the jungle in Africa, at age seventeen and walked out rich, at twenty-one. He also wants Ben to tell him how he made his fortune in Africa. He needs Ben to tell him he is proud of him and impressed by Biff and Happy. Willy continues to talk to Ben and even has his teenage sons in his hallucination. Eventually, Willy and Charley argue about the card game, causing Charley to leave. He is playing cards with Charley and talking to Ben at the same time. He is begging Ben to find the time to talk with him, to tell him about their father, who left when Willy was about three years old. While they are playing cards, Willy again goes into his own world and he sees his brother Ben, who has passed away. He disturbs his neighbor Charley, who comes over to play cards with Willy.
Willy, while he is living in the past, talks out loud to himself. All Willy does is to tell Happy other ways in which he can lose even more weight. Happy spends his time trying to garner some attention from his father, by telling him he has lost weight. Biff is recruited by three colleges to play sports for them, but Biff's grades are so poor he is in danger of not graduating. He has such high hopes for his sons, especially Biff. He is not as proud of Happy, but he is still proud of him. He is proud of Biff's achievements in sports and his popularity in high school. He thinks of his boys, Biff and Happy, as teenage boys. He is starting to have hallucinations about his life, before it began to fall apart. The stress of all this driving on the sixty-three year old man is becoming too much for him to bear. He has to drive to Boston and Portland in order to make his sales pitches.
This causes him to make mistakes such as crossing the dividing line between the lanes on the road and stopping for green traffic lights and going on red lights. He is not able to concentrate on his driving anymore. The stress of trying to bring in enough money has taken an enormous emotional toll on him. Because he is no longer as productive a salesman as he once was, he has been demoted from salary to commission only wages and therefore his income is much lower than it used to be. He is a salesman who has worked for the same company for thirty-six years. He is a man whose life is falling apart around him and he doesn't know how to cope with the changes he has to endure. Willy Loman lives in a house in New York City with his wife Linda.
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