Subsequent to fourteen years of being gone, Biff returns home. He and his brother Happy think of a job that would allow Biff to take it easy in New York. They remember Biffs ex- boss, Bill Oliver, and plan out to ask him for a borrow of ten thousand dollars to begin a business of their own. They inform their father about their plans, and Willy believes that the two boys could dominate the world in business simultaneously. Willy explains that the important thing in life is to be popular and to have personal beauty. He tells Biff that Mr. Oliver always thought highly of him and he reminds Biff of how nice-looking he is.
The following day, Willy is supposed to meet the two boys for dinner. He is so excited to have his boys on the edge of accomplishment that he decides to ask for a job in New York City. Howard Wagner, the present holder of the Wagner Company founded by his father, tells Willy that there is no room for him in New York, and then explains to Willy that he cannot be a symbol of the corporation in New England either because he has become harmful to business. Willy is now put on to go to Charley to have a loan of sufficient money to pay his insurance premium. It has been exposed that Willy has been borrowing fifty dollars each week for a long time and pretending it is his money. Even though Charley offers Willy a respectable employment in New York, Willy refuses to agree to it for the reason that he says he can't work for Charley. Willy takes the money and goes to meet his sons at the restaurant.
Biff and Happy met in the restaurant and Biff explained that he has been living an delusion. He tells Happy that he has stolen himself out of each job, including this engagement where he stole a pen from Bill Oliver's desk. When Willy arrives he tells the boys that he has been ablaze and refuses to take note to Biffs anecdote. Willy sits there and pretends that he has an additional slot the next day. Willy becomes enraged and is about to make a commotion, so he goes off to the bathroom. Biff, out of annoyance, leaves, and Happy who has picked up two girls, follows him, leaving Willy deserted.
Later on that night, Biff comes home and finds Willy out in the backyard planting seeds and chatting to the fantasy of his brother Ben. Willy has not seen Ben for a number of years, and in fact Ben has been dead for some time. Biff explains to Willy that it would be best if they break with each other and by no means see each other again. He tries once all over again to give explanation that he is no longer a chief of men and that he is just a common person who has no intrinsic worth.
Willy refuses to trust him and tells Biff once again how great he can be. Biff becomes frustrated once more for the reason that Willy refuses to see the reality. He finally breaks down and sobs to Willy to disregard him. Then, Willy is taken aback by his son's sentiment regarding him. Willy resolves on suicide, because with twenty thousand dollars in insurance money, Biff could be outstanding. So that is what he did, Willy crashed his car and caused his own death. It becomes visible to the person who reads that Willy died a unidentified man, because no one came to his funeral with the exception of his family.
Willy is at the bottom of his game regarding his job. He owns zilch, and he makes zilch, so he has no sensation of triumph. He develops the theory that if a person is well liked and has a great deal of personal attractiveness, then all doors will consequentially be opened for him. Willy built his life around these dreams. However, for Willy to live by his standards necessitates telling many lies, and these illusions take the place of realism in Willy's mentality. He tells lies about how positively liked he is in all of his work places, . Occasionally Willy still believes his own lies and becomes passionate when he tells his family that he made lots of money .
Willy subsequently fills his sons so full of this notion of being adored that when Biff fails math he goes to Boston to search for his father. He thought that since Willy is so well-liked, that he will be capable of persuading the math teacher to amend the mark. It was throughout this time that Biff encounters his father in the hotel room with a woman. Willy's eager yearning to be accepted is what drove him to have an affair in Boston. The actuality that she would go to bed with him promoted his self-image after a problematical day of being turned away by buyers.
Biff couldn't be familiar with that his father had committed infidelity, and from that point on, he saw his father as a phoney. Willy's life began to slam in on him and he had not anything more to live for apart from his illusions and fond recollections of the times of yore.
Therefore Willy's entire life has been lived according to his ideas about personal pleasant appearance and being popular. He never questioned these values and never realized that he lived in a world of illusions and dreams. He tried to bring up his children in that same world but he could not keep up the bogus front, and Biff would not live that way after the occasion in Boston.
Willy is the salesman right the way through the tragedy, and he is the individual that in the closing stages dies, on the contrary the given name of the drama can be seen as metaphorical, rather than factual. The genuine death in the play is that of Willy's dream for Biff to pursue in his footprints and turn out to be a salesman. At that moment when Biff is pleading with his father to fail to remember him and let him and his own dreams go, it is visible that Biff will under no circumstances become a salesman as his father had, and that is an alternative death that the title is referring to
