Nobody believes more in the American Dream than Willy, yet the dream has somehow passed him by. Now he is sixty years old, a beaten and discouraged traveling salesman, with nothing to show for a lifetime of hard work but a small house on a crowded street where grass doesn't grow anymore and apartment houses block his view. Rustling about upstairs are Willy's grown sons, Happy and Biff, home for a visit. Their presence in …
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…for a salesman there is no rock bottom to the life. A salesman has to dream. Biff asks Happy to leave the city with him, but Happy says that he's going to stay in the city and beat the racket, and show that Willy did not die in vain. Linda asks why Willy did what he did, and says that she paid the last payment on the house today, and that they're free and clear.