Act II
1. Biff went to see Bill Oliver
2. He would talk to Howard about
the New York job
3.
Willy is fired
4. Willy has spent the best
34 years of his life working
for the company, and now in
his old age they are letting
him go.
5. There is no time for false
pride, however Willy has
had false pride throughout
his life making the boys out
to be more than they are.
Now that he needs the boys,
he realizes that they won’t
help.
6. He has inflated his own
business worth to Linda, so
when the opportunity came to go
with Ben, Linda didn’t see the
need.
7. Willy can’t put his hands on
anything. He has nothing to show
for his work. He is in debt, bad at
business, his sons are just like him.
8. He goes to see Charley for
money to pay his life insurance.
9. He asks Bernard what
went wrong with Biff in
high school
10. Biff was ready to go to
summer school for math,
but when Biff came back
from Boston he gave up.
11. Charley stands for the
things Willy doesn’t
believe in. To work for
Charley would be to admit
that his whole life has been
wrong.
12. Biff realized that he was raised on
a false philosophy and was made to
seem better than he is. Biff realized
he was a clerk and a thief.
13. he got brushed aside—didn’t get
money or a meeting
14. He wants Biff to tell Willy that
there will be another meeting with
Bill. Happy wants “happy” news to
tell his dad.
15. Willy’s world is falling apart. He
lost his job and is trapped by years of
lies.
16. Willy daydreams about Biff
flunking math.
17. Biff took Oliver’s fountain pen.
18. They are women who come into
the restaurant. Happy cares more
about impressing them and getting a
date than about his own father.
19. to the bathroom
20. he calls his father a “fine, troubled
prince”
21. he can’t help Willy because they
don’t communicate well and just
fight and yell at each other
22. Happy is embarrassed by Willy
and doesn’t want the responsibility
for caring for Willy. Happy never
received his father’s attention.
Everything Willy does is for Biff.
23. When he was 17 Biff went to
Boston to talk to his father. When he
got there, he walked in on his father
and the woman
24. He went to get his father to talk to
the teachers at school to try and get
his grade changed. He thought his
father’s personality could help him to
not go to summer school.
25. He goes to buy carrot seeds
26. Linda is furious because the boys
left Willy at the restaurant
27. Willy can’t see worth in his life—
he wants to leave something
28. by killing himself and making it
look like an accident Willy can leave
Biff insurance money. Willy
probably thinks that Biff will make
something of himself with the money,
thereby Willy has left a successful
person behind as well.
29. He wants to tell Willy that he is
nothing and that he accepts him now
30. Biff realizes that Willy’s
philosophy is false and that no good
will come of it.
31. He says “Isn’t that remarkable?
Biff—he likes me!”
32. The jungle is death. Diamonds
represent the insurance money.
33. He speeds away in his car and has
a fatal crash.
34. The car represents his life as a
traveling salesman and his
philosophy in life in general.
35. Biff realized Willy’s philosophy
was wrong and that Willy’s life was
made up of illusions.
36. Biff will probably become a
productive citizen. Happy will
probably follow in Willy’s footsteps.
37. Irony—when Willy dies the
mortgage is paid on their home.
Willy would have actually owned
something. Willy and Linda would
be financially free. Also, now that
Willy is dead he is free of his false
philosophy and worldly concerns.