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Lazy — Biff Does not like to study or do anything related to hard work other than farming. This is because he grew up being taught you only need to be popular to be successful. Things might have worked out for him even with believing this illusion, however he flunks math and loses all his scholarships.

Friends are an important part of life. Friends are useful to help one get through the hardships of life. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman, we see the small (but present) friendship of Biff and Bernard. Biff is a football superstar, with scholarships lined up and friends galore. Bernard, his neighbour and childhood friend, is very much a book worm who decides to focus his time on his academics and unfortunately, doesn’t have many friends. Bernard had always idolized Biff throughout high school for his undeniable talent and charisma. On many occasions Bernard would offer to help Biff through his weaknesses by holding him accountable for his academics and help him

While Biff was in Boston, his discoveries manipulated the course of his life. Willy’s affair damaged the trust Biff had for him. Boys look up to their father. Once Biff saw The Woman, he no longer knew how to act. He had the intention of getting help to pass math. Willy’s affair shattered it all. Bernard explains to Willy that once Biff returned from Boston, things weren’t the same. “…I knew he’d given up his life. What happened in Boston, Willy?”

Biff, the only one with a mind of his own, is a mindless brute trying to be a salesman. He is best at farm work, physical labor is obviously his strong suit, but his father has drilled it into his mind that he has to

BIFF: You—you gave her Mama’s stockings! [His tears break through and he rises to go] (Salesman Act 2). After Biff left he began to work and wander providing him with the opportunity to look at himself and distance himself from delusions of grandeur that effect his father and brother so severely.

Biff and Happy idolized their father when they were young. The stories they were told made them picture their father as a popular, successful, well-known salesman. As Biff grew up, he found himself being told things about his father like "A salesman has to dream, it comes with the territory." At the end of the story when Linda says they we free, Biff is free to realize

He built Biff to be the perfect son. “And I never got anywhere because you blew me so full of hot air I could never taking orders from anybody! That’s whose fault it is!” (131). Grown up now, Biff realizes that Willy has built him into an egotistical star that had no chance with a future.

When Biff tries to please his father and work for Bill Oliver again, he gets disappointed because he has been living in an illusion that his father made for him: "Dad, I don’t know who said it first, but I was never a salesman for Bill Oliver" (106). At the end of the play, Biff gives us hope that he will maybe do something with his life by saying to Happy: "I know who I am, kid"

Biff really loves his mother, and it really hurt him when she kicked him out of the house. He hates it when Willy yells at her to shut up, because he loves her. He doesn't want his mom to worried about Willy, because he knows of Willy's affair.

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

In many ways Biff is similar to his father. In the beginning of the play we see that Biff shares many of the same ideas as Willy. He values being well-liked above everything else and sees little value in being smart or honest. One of Biff's main flaws is his tendency to steal. Early in the play we learn that he has stolen a football from the school locker. When Willy finds out about this, instead of disciplining Biff, he says that the coach will probably congratulate him on his initiative. We also learn that Biff once stole a box of basketballs from Bill Oliver. This foreshadows the scene in which Biff steals Bill

While Biff is in some ways desperate to impress his father, he is also conscious about the fact that Willy has failed his attempt to be successful in his career. He considers his dad’s dreams materialistic and unreachable. As a matter of fact, in the Requiem, even after his father’s death, Biff says: “He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.” Unlike Happy and Willy, Biff is self-aware and values facts; Willy never was a successful salesman and he never wanted to face the truth. On the other hand, Biff is conscious about his failures and the weaknesses of his personality. During an argument with his father, Biff admits that his dad made him “so arrogant as a boy” that now he just can’t handle taking

In the competitive setting of the city, he feels out of place and unable to work with his hands, a skill which he has inherited from his father who takes pride in building a front porch and putting up a new ceiling. In the country, Biff is not a 'success' according to the capitalist definition because as Willy points out disparagingly:

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

Linda tries to explain to Willy that a job like a farmhand is a way for Biff to find himself, that there is more to job that makes less than just $35 dollars a week. Ironically Biff would feel content with a farm job if Willy did not push for a job in town. Similarly, Linda chastises Biff for not settling down. In the time period that this play takes place, the stereotype was to live out the American dream; have a family, get rich, own a home, something Biff has not done. Miller makes this evident when Linda proclaims that Biff cannot look around his whole life, Biff replays that he cannot take hold of some kind of life, Linda remarks, “Biff, a man is not a bird, to come and go with the springtime,”(39). With the idea of success of having wealth and binging well liked, being the complete opposed can cause some issues. Biff is a wonderer and a outdoors type of person, where Linda and Willy believe in having a steady job in town. Biff is trying to find success but is not finding it because he is trapped in the mindset of his parents. Being popular has nothing to do with success; success comes through with hard work and