Willy Loman Failure

While Biff was still married to Alice he was lonesome and dreamed for children, after Alice’s death, Biff began to fantasize that Mick and his niece Baby were his children and he imagined how he would raise them. Also, following the death of his wife, Biff began to wear her perfume and he took up sewing. Biff is a very confused character and he is not sure were he fits in society, he tried to live the all-American life but it backfired on him. The death of Alice was the turning point for Biff because he realized that he had wasted fifteen years on a loveless marriage. Biff is a puzzle with all the pieces mixed up; he wants to fix a problem but he doesn’t know how.

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.

Willy Loman’s inner nature is known to be driven, passionate and stubborn. His stubbornness becomes a disadvantage to himself when he is unable to accept his own failure. After losing his salesman job, he realizes that he is unable to pay for his insurance. Willy then resorts to asking Charley for money to ensure that Linda remains unaware of his situation. “Charley, look…I got my insurance to pay. If you cant manage it—I need a hundred and ten dollars. / I’d draw it from my bank but Linda would know, and I…” (Miller 96). Willy’s intention to hide his job status from Linda proves how he believes he will still be a successful salesman even after being fired. Despite being broke and running out of options, he still refuses Charley’s job offer

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

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

Biff learns to accept himself which allows him to be more successful in life. Biff learns

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 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”.

Arthur Miller, A play writer in the twentieth century, wrote a play entitled Death of a salesman that won him the Pulitzer Price just a year after its release. In the play Miller expresses the life of a 60 year old salesman that undergoes through lack of success in his life and sees the same thing happening ,to his two grown sons now in their mid-thirties, as the American dream faded away being replaced by capitalism in the late 1940s. The play starts of by introducing Willy Loman, the protagonist, and tells the story of the final twenty four hours in Willy’s life all the way to his death and funeral. Between that time laps the audience is able to see Willies past thanks to his constant daydreams, along with his sons past and wife and

Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman tells the story of the failure of a salesman, Willy Loman. Although not all Americans are salesmen, most of us share Willy’s dream of success. We are all partners in the American Dream and parties to the conspiracy of silence surrounding the fact that failures must outnumber successes.(Samantaray, 2014)

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.

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 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, author Arthur Miller, presents the Lomans, a dysfunctional family. The father of the Lomans, Willy, is the main character of the story. I feel like Willy is the true tragic hero. The definition of tragedy has changed over the course of time with its origins dating back as far as 350 BC, when the Greek philosopher Aristotle introduced the concept of hamartia, a man's fatal flaw. Arthur Miller took Aristotle’s teachings into consideration when writing Death of a Salesman, especially the elements of a tragic hero.

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.