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Death of a Salesman chronicles Willy Loman's final descent into a mad unreality. During one of these episodes of unreality, as he conducts a vociferous conversation with Ben, his long-dead brother, his next door neighbor, Charley, enters. They begin to play cards, both men trading insults, until Charley gives up and returns home. In this crucial encounter, one friend is a foil for the other in Miller's dramatic exposition of the meaning of a successful life. Charley's is real, while Willy's is a sham. Both men know this, but are unwilling to admit it to eachother. Thus, out of envy, Willy insists that a real man is one who knows how to handle tools. Thus, out of pity, which he knows he can't reveal to Willy, Charley offers his friend a job, aware even as he says it, that it is doomed to be refused.

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