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Comparing Willy Loman's Happy And Biff

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In addition to Willy and Biff, there is another family member who have been living in a dream. Willy’s younger son Happy has been a part of his family living in a lie. He is thirty-two years old, and has been living in the shadows of his brother his whole life. He is a younger version of Willy. He grew up always listening to his father talk so highly of his job, so he does the same thing. He embellishes the truth to create a life of illusions. Happy is also still caught up in high school, because back than him and his brother Biff were popular. The author states, “Happy and Biff formulate schemes to synthesize values, hoping to attain prominence and to reunite as brothers. Their short-lived dream of a Loman ranch in the West attempts to synthesize sports and commercialism, the pastoral and the urban, playfulness and seriousness, …show more content…

All of Happy’s life he imagined a dream of being with his brother again and succeeding. He hoped it would be just like old times. He is also caught up with the illusion that he will make it in the business world only because he is stronger and better looking than his bosses. The author states, “Happy’s need to be “number one” has another significance also, for he has never been the sole focus of his father’s attention, always a poor second to Biff. He seems always to be merely present in the Loman household, an adjunct” (15). All his life he has always been second to his brother Biff. He craves his father’s attention and is always trying to do something outrageous. Throughout the play Happy never changes. Even in the end when his father has died he still does not see the illusion his father has been living in. Happy states, “I’m gonna show you and everybody else that Willy Loman did not die in vain. He had a god dream” (Miller 111). In other words Happy believes that even though his dad died, he still lived his life to the

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