He has such high hopes for his sons, especially Biff. He is not as proud of Happy, but he is still proud of him. He is proud of Biff's achievements in sports and his popularity in high school. He thinks of his boys, Biff and Happy, as teenage boys. He is starting to have hallucinations about his life, before it began to fall apart. The stress of all this driving on the sixty-three year old man is becoming too much for him to bear. He has to drive to Boston and Portland in order to make his sales pitches. This causes him to make mistakes such as crossing the dividing line between the lanes on the road and stopping for green traffic lights and going on red lights. He is not able to concentrate on his driving anymore. The stress of trying to bring in enough money has taken an enormous emotional toll on him. Because he is no longer as productive a salesman as he once was, he has been demoted from salary to commission only wages and therefore his income is much lower than it used to be. He is a salesman who has worked for the same company for thirty-six years. He is a man whose life is falling apart around him and he doesn't know how to cope with the changes he has to endure. Willy Loman lives in a house in New York City with his wife Linda.
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