Linda Loman And Willy's Relationship

Biff finds out and confronts his father. Linda was shocked yet she still defended Willy because he is her husband and she is “supposed” to support him. For example, at the dinner table, Biff confronts Willy of committing adultery. Willy and Biff get into an argument and even though Linda’s suspicions were confirmed, she

The main reason why Linda presumes Biff has the ability to save Willy is due to the two men’s prior close relationship. Before the incident in Boston Biff idolized his father and in return his father Willy placed Biff on a pedestal. Willy’s self worth had a direct correlation with Biff’s success. Near the end of high school Biff began to strive only to please his father. He knew he had his father’s pride weighing on his shoulders and the need to please his father always ominously loomed clouding his mind. QUOTE The effort and how much Biff warrants his father’s approval laces all of Willy’s flashbacks. This is the relationship Linda is hoping to save Willy, but unfortunately after Boston the two men’s regards for each other quickly dissipated.

Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman follows protagonist Willy Loman in his search to better his and his family’s lives. Throughout Willy Loman’s career, his mind starts to wear down, causing predicaments between his wife, two sons and close friends. Willy’s descent into insanity is slowly but surely is taking its toll on him, his job and his family. They cannot understand why the man they have trusted for support all these years is suddenly losing his mind. Along with his slope into insanity, Willy’s actions become more aggressive and odd as the play goes on. Despite Willy and Biff’s “family feud”, his two sons Happy and Biff truly worry about their father’s transformation, Happy saying: “He just wants you to make good, that’s all. I

During the catastrophic play, Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller, Miller tries to explain his understanding of humans through a quote by Linda Loman. This quote suggests that unsuccessful and not-so-great fathers still deserve to be treated as if they are well liked and preposterous. On the night of Willy’s return from work, he goes on one of his delirious walks outside. Biff comes downstairs curious as to where his father has gone. Shortly after, Biff criticizes his father and their mother —Linda— quickly defends him like she has many times before by stating, “The man who never worked a day but for your benefit?

In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman, through the character of Linda Loman, the author implies that there is universal need for everyone to be respected even if they do not deserve to be. In the beginning of the play, Willy and Linda are talking about Biff and how he has not quite landed on his feet and Linda defends Biff by saying “He’s finding himself, Willy” (5). During this scene, Willy is criticizing Biff for being home at the age of thirty-four and how he cannot do a thing for himself. Linda is coming to the rescue and explains how he is trying to figure the world out and the situation is normal. Later in the play, Linda and Biff are speaking about Willy and Biff’s outbreak and Linda immediately tells her son, “You can’t come just

Willy’s biggest issue with his son is that he let him down by not being any more successful than him. He feels like Biff is failing on purpose just to make him look bad. Although, he has no decent job and is single; Biff has become disoriented about life. Earlier in the play Biff tells Happy, “I tell ya Hap, I don't know what the future is. I don't know - what I'm supposed to want” (Miller266). Biff once looked up to his father as a role model, but lost all faith in him once finding out that he was having an affair. Ever since he has rejected Willy’s commitment of being a husband and also a father. To add to his ruins are Willy’s ideas of how Biff should get ahead in life. Willy taught Biff that popularity was the right way to get to the top, rather than hard-work and dedication. Trying to live by his dad’s standards caused Biff to fail high school and become unable to put forth the effort to become

Failure as a father figure shows acceptance. After the recent argument with Biff, Willy finally understands who he truly is and was. In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, Biff states, “The scum of the earth, and you’re looking at him!” (Miller,124). These words were only a few out of many that made Willy understand he must change because it was his son saying these words to him; someone who meant a lot to Willy.

In the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, through Linda’s character, the author suggests that all humans deserve respect, and acknowledging a person's humanity allows us to understand that even men who are not successful by society's standards are still worthy of admiration by those who love them. Specifically, Linda points out to Biff and Happy, her two sons, that Willy, the father/husband, has to borrow money to keep up with expenses, and Linda explains that Willy does this for his family, but Biff and Happy are not aware of this: “When he has to go to Charley and borrow fifty dollars a week and pretend to me that it’s his pay?... And you tell me he has no character? The man who never worked a day but for your benefit? When does he get the medal for that?

In “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, in the Act I, the author emphasizes the relationship between Willy and Linda in different ways by showing the love of Linda towards Willy and how she admires him. And also, she always shows her patient when Willy gets angry easily. The relationship between Willy and Biff is different from the past. Willy’s relationship with Biff is complicated. Biff is everything for Willy and Biff believed that Willy is the greatest father in the world, but in the present Biff doesn’t think like that anymore.

Biff Loman is portrayed as the root of Willy’s mental illness and instability. He is also the only member of his family who acknowledges his own failures in life. On the whole, Biff Loman stands out as the most intriguing and strong character in “Death of a Salesman. He is not a successful man and never will be, he is however able to admit this, even in a harsh society as the one of the 1960s America. Biff knows he is a “nothing” and tries to make his father see that he is “no good. I am a dime a dozen, Pop, and so are you.” He begs for Willy to communicate with him and accept him for who he is. Although Willy is forced by Biff to see some of his own failures, he never

In Arthur Miller’s play, “Death of a Salesman”, Biff Loman demonstrates a change in character through his relationship with his father, Willy Loman.It is with the fall of Willy that Biff rises as a character despite not being sure of his identity. Biff realizes that the pointless direction his life is taking, is caused by his father.For example, Biff left Texas because after being influenced by his father so much, he, like Willy, believed he was wasting his life.It wasn’t until later on in the play that Biff became aware of his actions and decided to change his ambitions and way of thinking. It was because he left Texas to return back home that Willy believes that Biff is letting his potential go to waste and that he has no idea on what to

The Importance of Biff's Role in "Death of a Salesman" The play "Death of a Salesman", by Arthur Miller, follows the life of Willy Loman, a self-deluded salesman who lives in utter denial, always seeking the "American Dream," and constantly falling grossly short of his mark. The member's of his immediate family, Linda, his wife, and his two sons, Biff and Happy, support his role. Of these supportive figures, Biff's character holds the most importance, as Biff lies at the center of Willy's internal conflicts and dreams , and Biff is the only one in the play who seems to achieve any growth. Biff's role is essential to the play because he generates the focus of Willy's conflict for the larger part, his own

This change in Biff’s demeanor creates a dramatic but necessary conversation between Biff and Willy, and allows for Biff to be free from his father’s constraints. In the play Biff goes to his father and talks to him, man to man. Biff tells his father that he is going to leave and never come back, saying “People ask where I am and what I’m doing, you don’t know, and you don’t care. That way it’ll be off your mind and you can start brightening up again.

Biff and Happy once deeply respected and looked to their father for advice and encouragement, as in the past Linda says “few men are idolized by their children the way you are”⁶, but as they realise his advice was false and he had been living a lie throughout life. As soon as Biff finds out about his father’s affair he no longer respects him and Willy remains unable to win back his trust. “You fake! You phony little fake”⁷. Willy feels that by his suicide, it will prove to Biff that he was truly committed to providing for his family. He still believes that Biff will become successful by having the money from his life insurance showing how he never learnt from his mistakes. “Can you imagine that magnificence with twenty thousand dollars in his pocket? ...When the mail comes he’ll be ahead of Bernard once more”⁵. It is more tragic that Biff is the one who realises that “he had the wrong dreams”⁴ at his funeral. Rather than feeling proud, Biff he pities his father. Ironically it is

Willy’s clear-cut expectations of his son can be evidently seen even in the early stages Biff’s life, which end up creating a lot of tension between Willy and Biff when Biff doesn’t meet his father’s expectations. Even when Biff is an adult and still hasn’t become successful in his father’s eyes, Willy’s expectations persist, as in a heated argument between the two Willy tells grown-up Biff that “the door of [Biff’s] life is wide open!” (132). Even though Biff will clearly never become successful in his father’s eyes, Willy still forces his unreasonable expectations on Biff, creating hostility between the two. Although Biff initially attempts to fulfill his father’s definition of success by working as a shipping clerk, Biff realizes that he will never fulfill his father’s unrealistic expectations: “Pop, I’m nothing!