About halfway through Act 2 leaves me just before Willy enters the restaurant for his dinner with Happy and Biff. Act 2 opens with Willy and Linda eating breakfast. Biff and Happy had already left for the day. Willy is very optimistic about Biff's meeting with Oliver. Biff is meeting with Oliver to discuss getting a loan in order to start a business and move out to the country. Willy and Linda spend a very short amount of time fantasizing before they start talking about money again and Willy gets upset. He's mostly just frustrated that all of his things weren't new when he bought them and they break frequently. Willy leaves just before Biff calls Linda. This is when we learn that the rubber pipe Willy has been inhaling gas through is gone, but Linda is rather disappointed to find out Biff took it. Willy goes to see Howard. Willy tells Howard that he doesn't want to travel anymore, but Howard doesn't seem interested in listening to him. The conversation ends with Willy losing his job, and Howard lets him stay in his office to compose himself. While he is there he has less of a flashback, but more of a hallucination. In it he is taking his family and Bernard to Biff's game. Near the end he gets into a little fight with Charley. Then Jenny, the secretary brings the audience out of the memory and we know that he has been arguing out loud with Charley. Not only, but he was walking around the building while doing it, so he's only semi-conscious of where he is. Charley in real life offers Willy a job since he knows Willy just lost his, but for some reason Willy doesn't want it. Next we see Happy at the restaurant where Stanley is waiting on their table. He has a short conversation with a girl, but soon after Biff comes in. Unfortunately, things did not go well with Oliver. Oliver didn't remember Biff at all, and after an entire day of waiting, Oliver spent one uninterested minute with Biff. The boys know that they can't expect Willy to stay happy after hearing this, so they decide to tell him that Oliver is thinking it over and to let it die down. Willy enters.