BEN: William, when I walked into the jungle, I was seventeen. When I walked out I was twenty-one. And, by God, I was rich! (He goes off into darkness around the right corner of the house.)
WILLY: …was rich! That’s just the spirit I want to imbue them with! To walk into a jungle! I was right! I was right! I was right!
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. In this imagined conversation with his dead brother, Willy sees Ben’s financial success as the American Dream becoming a reality, hoping his two boys will be inspired by it. Willy wants young Biff and Happy to be like Ben, and not to be afraid to go into life’s metaphorical jungle and create their own success.