He claims that he's tired to death and couldn't make it through the rest of his trip. She worries that he smashed the car, but he says that nothing happened. Her struggle is to support him while still trying to guide him. Linda is mostly jovial, but represses objections to her husband.
Linda Loman, his wife, puts on a robe and slippers and goes downstairs. The salesman, Willy Loman, enters his home.
