WILLY: Before it’s all over we’re gonna get a little place out in the country, and I’ll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens…
LINDA: You’ll do it yet, dear.
WILLY: You wait, kid, before it’s all over we’re gonna get a little place out in the country, and I’ll raise some vegetables, a couple of chickens…And they’ll get married, and come for a weekend. I’d build a little guest house…I could build two guest houses, so they’d both come.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. Willy Loman appears happiest when he is in the great outdoors, in close communion with nature, and building things with his hands. Is it any wonder he is discontented when he is part of the rat race living in New York City and working as a salesman.