A sixty year old salesman living in Brooklyn, Willy Loman is a gregarious, mercurial man with powerful strivings and aspirations for success. However, after thirty-five years as a traveling salesman throughout New England, Willy Loman is tired and defeated by his lack of success and difficult family life. Although he has a dutiful wife, his relationship with his oldest son, Biff, is strained because of Biff\'s continual failures. As a salesman, Willy Loman focuses on personal details over actual measures of success, believing that it is personality and not results that garner success in the business world.
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