• Willy is born, in his father’s wagon somewhere on the road in Ohio. 
• (One of the only memories he has of his father is the sound of a flute playing.)

• Willy’s father deserts his family in South Dakota and leaves for the Alaska Gold Rush. 
• Ben, aged seventeen, leaves in search of his father.

• Willy marries Linda and begins working as a salesman for Frank Wagner’s company. 
• Biff is born.

• Happy (Harold) is born.

• Willy buys a house in the Brooklyn suburbs and moves his family. He signs a 25-year mortgage.

• (Arthur Miller’s father’s business starts to go sour.) 
• Willy reaches the height of his success as a businessman, earning $70-$100 dollars a week

• Fall: 

• Willy buys a Hasting’s Refrigerator (big ad in paper.) 
• Willy builds a stoop on the back door of his house with lumber stolen from a nearby work site. 
• Willy owns a Chevrolet with a fold-down windshield and a bad carburetor. 
• Uncle Ben visits. 
• Biff stars in the city championship football game at Ebbets Field 
• Biff gets a football scholarship to the University of Virginia.

• Spring:

• Biff flunks his math exam in Mr. Birnbaum’s class and doesn’t graduate. 
• Biff goes to Boston to talk with Willy and discovers him in the hotel room with the woman.

1932 

• Biff is fired from Bill Oliver’s Sporting Goods Store for stealing a carton of basketballs. 
• Willy pawns his diamond stick pin to pay for a correspondence course for Biff.
  

1935 

• Biff leaves home.

1945 

• Willy finishes a new ceiling in his living room.
• The play’s action begins late Monday night when Willy returns home after nearly running off the road enroute to New England.

• Tuesday a.m. 

• Willy is fired by Howard. 
• Biff steals a pen from Bill Oliver. 

• Tuesday p.m. 

• Willy is left in the men’s room at Frank’s Chop House. 

• Wednesday early a.m.  

• Willy plants a garden.
• Willy drives his car into a wall. 

• Saturday 

• Willy is buried 
• The refrigerator is paid off. 
• Linda makes the final payment on the house.