While at dinner, Willy becomes upset and leaves.
In an attempt help their father, Happy and Biff take Willy out to dinner. Instead of being transferred to the New York office, he is fired. With his sons visiting and urging him to speak to his boss about his job, Willy gets up the nerve to ask for a transfer. Set in New York City in 1949, Willy, the protagonist, is a traveling salesman his wife, Linda, is a stay at home mother and his two sons, Happy and Biff, have grown up but have 'yet to make something of themselves.'ĭuring many flashbacks the audience is introduced to Willy's early life: His dreams, disillusionment, infidelity, and disappointments with being mediocre.