Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman <Tab/>As the play opens, Willy Loman, who has been a traveling salesman for 35 years, returns home after having just left for a sales trip to New England. He tells his wife Linda that he can no longer go on the road because he cannot keep his mind on driving. At the same time, his elder son Biff is visiting the Brooklyn home after being away for …

…planting seeds and holding an imaginary conversation with his dead brother, Ben, who had been a very successful man. <Tab/>In the end, Willy commits suicide. He dies in a car "accident", an attempt to leave his life insurance money to his sons, so that they could succeed in life. He hoped that he could give something to them so that they would not turn out to be "failures" like him.