The jungle of the business world, where a man has to hack his way to the top by being better than all the other employees and willing to do whatever it takes to get ahead. The jungle can mean a literal jungle or it can mean the jungle of the business world. He talks of walking into the jungle and finding the diamonds, which make him a rich man. Ben talks to Willy about his time in Africa, working in the diamond mines. In his mind the boys are teenagers and Ben is a younger man also.
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He wants to know if Ben feels he is teaching his boys, Biff and Happy, how to be men. He sees Ben and thinks he is standing in front of him. Willy is having a conversation with his dead brother, Ben. And, by God, I was rich!" (Ben Loman, Act One) "Willian, when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. He doesn't understand why Biff, as an adult, has such a hard time finding and keeping a successful job. He also thinks his sons, especially Biff, are people who have those qualities of likeability and personal interest. He thinks he is that person, which makes it so hard for him to accept the truth of his life, which is he is not that person and never has been. He has based his whole life on this belief. His belief is if a person is likeable and creates a persona which is indelible in a person's mind, then he will be successful. He is telling them how he lives his life. In fact he is alone and speaking to no one, but he thinks his boys are with him. He is speaking to his boys, but to him they are teenagers. Willy is in the midst of one of his hallucinations. Be liked and you will never want." (Willy Loman, Act One) Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. "That's why I thank Almighty God you're both built like Adonises. He is physically and emotionally spent, his mind especially is exhausted.
He is tired of traveling from New York to New England for his job. He one minute is driving just fine and the next he is speeding and driving off the road. He is having trouble concentrating on his driving. Willy is explaining to his wife the reason he could not make his sales calls that day. I just couldn't make it, Linda." (Willy Loman, Act One)
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