Close quarters

Willy's home is decribed as three rooms and a back yard/urban area. This really is not a whole lot of space, and we know from contexts that the house all together only has 5 rooms counting to brothers loft/bedroom. Obviously this is mainly due to the fact that Willy is not that wealthy of a person, but also it shows how he desires a close family. When he remenices about when Biff and Happy were in high school and Biff steals the football, his memories are of a close bond between father and brothers. With a closed in scenerary, there is no place that the characters can go without runnnig into each other with in minutes. This means a vast amount of interaction between family members, with the hope that a close relationship will form. The brothers are very close as we see when they are in their beds conversing. And we know from context that they are close with their father at an early age. But Willy's inability to live in the present limits his ability to have a close knit relationship with his sons in the here and now. physically being close to someone is very different from being emotionally and mentally close to them.