Of Mice and Men

Death of a Salesman opening seen shows the main character Willy Loman arriving home one night. He is tired and exhausted, the audience discovers, from his day at work and goes straight up to bed where his wife, Linda, is. The two begin to talk and Willy straights to get worked-up thinking of how his oldest son, Biff, has come home. Willy leaves Linda in the bed and goes down to the kitchen.
Once in the kitchen, Willy begins to have loud conversations with himself stating how he feels Biff has failed him. Willy then loses himself in a daydream from the past. In the daydream, Willy has just arrived home from work and sees his boys outsides along with the neighbor boy, Bernard. Willy takes his young sons asides and tells them that someday they will find much success and wealth unlike Bernard because Bernard is a nerd and not as “well-liked” as the two Loman boy. Willy’s chatter awakes Biff and the other Loman son, Happy.
The chatter not only awakes the boys but also awakes Willy’s friend and next store neighbor Charley. Charley comes over to the Loman house and begins to talk with Willy in his kitchen. Charley begins to talk with Willy, who is having conversations with Ben, his dead older brother. Charley offers Willy a job at his company and Willy refuses causing Charley to become angered stating that Willy is jealous of his success and storms out.
The boys, too, then go into the kitchen. There they find their mother helping their father. The four begin to talk and Willy begins to yell at Biff for his lack of success. Happy tries to diffuse the situation stating that he has thought of a company for him and Biff to own and become successes. Willy becomes overjoyed and tells Biff that the next day Biff should go to his old high ...

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...ashlight, talking to Ben. He brings Willy inside and Willy begins to yell at him for being a failure. Biff begins to cry and confronts his father on the truth. Biff explains that he is a criminal and that Happy is a phony, for he is not an assistant buyer but rather an assistant to the assistant buyer. Willy finally understands and stays downstairs while the others go to bed. Willy’s car is heard starting up and he speeds off.
In the requiem, Linda, Charley, Happy, and Biff are shown at Willy’s small funeral. Biff states that his father had the wrong dreams but Charley defines Willy saying that he was a victim of his mindset. About to leave, Biff asks Happy to come out west with him but Happy rejects the offer saying that he must avenge Willy’s death and make as much money as possible. The play ends with Linda crying in front of Willy’s tomb saying “we’re free.”