Death of a Salesman climax with Biff hugging Willy and crying as he tries to get Willy to let go of the unrealistic expectations. Rather than listen to what Biff actually says, Willy appears to believe his son has forgiven him and will follow in his footsteps, and after Linda goes upstairs to bed (despite her urging him to follow her), lapses one final time into a hallucination, thinking he sees his long-dead brother Ben, whom Willy idolized. In Willy's mind, Ben approves of the scheme Willy has dreamed up to kill himself in order to give Biff his insurance policy money. Willy exits
Robert Prosky D.C., most notably as Willy Loman in "Death of a Salesman". Prosky often performed at Arena Stage with over 100 stage credits to his name at that theatre alone. He played Shelly Levene in the 1984 Chicago and Broadway production of David Mamet's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Glengarry Glen Ross". He was also a board member of the Cape May Stage in Cape May, New Jersey. Prosky donated his papers to George Mason University. In 1960, he married Ida Hove, and had three sons, Stefan, John and Andrew Prosky. Andrew and John Prosky are also actors. On December 8, 2008, Prosky