It is only Biff who realizes had all the wrong dreams. His father died deluding himself, and apparently Happy is going to do the same. He fought it out here, and this is where Im gonna win it for him(1415).

Its the only dream you can have-to come out number-one man.

At Willys funeral, Happy says, Im gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. Throughout the play Linda has remained static, always steadfastly supporting Willy, and believing he is incapable of flaw. Lastly, Biff is the only character who achieves any real growth in the play. When Biff realized that Willy was not the great man that he thought he was, his dreams became nothing to him, as had his father.Īnd so, Biff became a drifter, living only on a day to day basis. Biff had never dreamed for himself, being concerned only with fulfilling his fathers wishes. After that, Biff laid down and died like a hammer hit him (1392). All of this changed, however, when Biff found his father in a Boston hotel room with another woman. Biff was absolutely obsessed with pleasing his father, who was flawless in his eyes. He was captain of the football team, and had plans for college and then a career in business afterwards. In his youth, he shared his fathers great aspirations for himself. The amount of aggravation generated by Biffs lack of motivation and desire to be successful makes Biffs role extremely important The play also spends quite a bit of time focusing on Biffs own conflict, which is basically his father.

Be liked and you will never want, says Willy(1363). When Willy has memories of Biff as a boy, he is completely obsessed with whether or not Biff is well-liked however, he is completely oblivious to things like Biffs having stolen a football from school, and the fact that Biff is failing his math class. Biff is a source of endless frustration for Willy, who always dreams of Biff being incredibly successful in the business world. Biff, who is already in his thirties, is still drifting from place to place, job to job, most recently work as a farmhand. Willy is forever plagued by the fact that Biff has not gone anywhere in life. Biffs role is essential to the play because he generates the focus of Willys conflict for the larger part, his own conflict is strongly attributed to Willy, and finally, he is the only character who manages growth or a sense of closure in the play.

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