Willy Loman Failure

Biff’s love for his father shows at early age, being a salesman Willy is nearly never home leaving his children as well as his wife alone without his company. In result, Willy’s arrival brings bright smiles and gloomy words describing how heartbroken they are when Willy is absent for example, Biff states “Where’d you go this time, Dad? Gee we were lonesome for you”(19). Unfortunately, the exchanges of kind words no longer occur after the discovery of the affair. Once Biff uncovers this secret constant arguments with poor perspectives on one another are always present. Biff explains, “Everything I say there’s a twist of mockery on his face. I can’t go near him”(12). Also, many know about the low thoughts and persistent disrespectful remarks, Willy’s wife tells her son Biff about their constant fighting “But you no sooner some in the door than you’re fighting”(38). Additionally, after the hidden relationship was discovered Willy changes the way he thinks about his eldest son Biff. Willy looks at sons Biff and Happy highly. Also claiming how blessed he is to have the “That’s why I thank Almighty God you’re both built like Adonises. Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead” (21). Now after having his secret uncovered by his son Willy has no approbation for his son, he finds him as a failure and this is shows when he criticizes Biff’s life “Not finding yourself at the age of thirty-four is a disgrace”

Willy Loman is a loving husband, a doting father, and an ace salesman: at least this is the image he portrays to others. However, a probe into the sundry layers of Willy’s personality expose a troubled man who could not live up to his preconceived personal measures of success. In the Arthur Miller play, “Death of a Salesman”, Miller creates Willy Loman, a seemingly ordinary, middle-class family man in the midst of a meltdown. Willy’s meltdown is fueled by the revelation that he is a failure in three major aspects of his life. The loving husband is actually a philandering adulterer; the doting father is really a meddling moron; and, the ace salesman is merely an unqualified, unlikeable businessman. Miller uses Willy Loman’s character to illustrate

Biff is one of the main characters in the play "Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller. Biff is Willy's and Linda's son. He was the star of the football team and had scholarships to 3 college's, but he flunked math and couldn't graduate, so he tried to work at many different jobs, and failed at each. Finally, he decided to head out west, and work on farms.

In Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, Willy Loman’s life seems to be slowly deteriorating. It is clear that Willy’s predicament is of his own doing, and that his own foolish pride and ignorance lead to his downfall. Willy’s self-destruction involved the uniting of several aspects of his life and his lack of grasping reality in each, consisting of, his relationship with his wife, his relationship and manner in which he brought up his children, Biff and Happy, and lastly his inability to productively earn a living and in doing so, failure to achieve his “American Dream”.

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

Sources of his situation are sheltered in the past. Biff constantly followed his father’s orienteer that charm and good look are the only tickets to promising future and success. But once he didn’t pass math exam, Biff in despair rushes to his dad and finds him in the room with another woman. Exactly at this moment, Biff’s world falls apart, all his values are wiped out. Willy was his role model, Biff sincerely trusted him, but suddenly he finds out that his dad always lied.

Willy Loman is a senile salesman who lives a dull life with a depleting career. He has an estranged relationship with his family and believes in the American Dream of effortless success and affluence, but in no way accomplishes it. Feeling like the aim of life is to be favored by others and gaining a materialistic fortune, Willy lives in a world of delusion where

In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller’s character, Willy Loman, is desperately trying to achieve the unattainable American Dream. Throughout the play, Willy encounters many challenges that have derailed his course and his perseverance drives him and his family insane.

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

Willie Loman is an ordinary man who embodies traditional American values of success. He has reached the age where he can no longer compete successful in his chosen career, that of a traveling salesman. Faced with the termination of his job, he begins to examine his past life to determine its value. At this critical point in Willie’s existence, his oldest son Biff has returned home for a visit, and Willie’s old desire for his son to be a traditional success in life is rekindled. But the old tensions between the two men are also renewed. Once again, to Willie’s great disappointment, his son rejects Willie’s values and aspirations. (“Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller 1949 Drama”)

Death of a Salesman unwinds post-war America. After the war, prosperity has increased. The 1950s, were still a time where men not only provided for their families, but to also supplied the luxuries that came along with working class men. Willy Loman bought into the idea of being glorified and worshipped. He lived for the positive preservation of his family name. Willy Loman’s downfall was trying to be “The Man” and not “A Man”.

Biff’s failure comes from the fact that once high school is over, nothing happens. Biff does not go on to be a great businessman or anything like that. Instead he goes from job to job, not making his fortune like Willy thought he would. This poked a hole in the world that Willy had presented to Biff and Happy.

Biff is the apple of his father’s eye. Young, handsome, strong, intelligent, and full of ambition, Biff is going to take the world by storm, and Willy intends to living vicariously through him. This is not to be however. After Biff’s disastrous attempt to get his father to discuss grades with his math teacher, Biff gives up. Entirely. At one point, he wanted to work and to succeed in order to please his father, but after he discovers Willy cavorting with another woman, Biff does not want to give his father the satisfaction of a flourishing son. Suddenly, Willy is a liar in his eyes, and later in life, this causes Biff to have an almost violent relationship with him. (1268) What makes the strain worse is Willy’s guilt, because he knows whose fault the tension is, yet he cannot bring himself to admit it.

Also, Biff the oldest son, continues to search for his purpose in life. Due mainly to all the "hot air" Willy always feeds him, Biff continues to stumble in his fight for life. Biff has never had the ability to hold down a job very long due to his inability to take orders and do his time in the trenches before becoming a success at a particular job.

Willy, a 60 year old man who views himself as the greatest salesman of all time, sees himself as a hero and the man who provides for his family at all times. He goes on long roadtrips trying to bring in money for the household so they can achieve “The American Dream”, risking his mental health. As a result, others viewed him as a successful, and ambitious man that will risk any and everything to get to the top. Therefore, Willy tries to bring in as much money as be can, and he even tries to persuade his boss to give him better work, instead of traveling. Willy states, “I averaged a hundred and seventy dollars a week in the year of 1928!.” In other words, Willy is insisting a salary raise, and a non-traveling schedule so he continue providing for his family.