![]() Even so, Willy is not able to accept the truth, making Biff unable to communicate with Willy. This gave an insight of Biff’s honesty and his true personality that he is not able to express himself, in the play, to Willy. Biff blames Willy for not giving him the proper guidance when he was caught stealing as a child. Also, Biff is seen throughout the play stealing. ![]() In one of the scenes in the play, Biff shouts at Willy saying that he can’t hold a job because his dad made him very arrogant as a boy, that he can’t handle orders from a boss. Unlike Willy and Happy, Biff is self-aware and takes a great value in the truth. Also, he realizes that he did not want or is able to achieve the materialistic dreams that both Willy and Happy want to achieve so much. Biff was desperate to please and impress Willy, but he realizes that the way he was brought up was flawed like his father. Willy’s two sons were both brought up as a child to have materialistic dreams, and to impress and please their father. No matter how much Biff vouches no to be like his father, it is something he cannot run away from. No matter how much Biff wants to get away from being Willy Loman’s son, it is something he cannot do. ![]() The affair of his dad was the point in Biff’s life where everything started to spiral down, and Biff starts to reject Willy and his philosophy of becoming successful if you’re “well-liked”. Discovering that his dad was having an affair with another woman when he travelled to Boston, Biff gave up not only going to summer school to recover his math credit, but also going to his dream university.īiff’s perception of Willy as the ideal father is destroyed after the trip to Boston. Without the math credit, going to University of Virginia was not an option. He was once a high school football idol, but did not put much effort into school work, failing math in his last year. We see Biff is now struggling with an internal conflict, and spends time soul-searching. ![]() Although he is a flawed character, he manages to succeed at one thing that Willy was not able to, which is acknowledging his failures, rather than dreaming of something he is not able to achieve.Īs Willy Loman’s oldest son, Biff got most of his father’s attention. The name ‘Biff’ gives an appearance of a tough man, but in the play ‘Death of a Salesman’, Biff is a flawed character who is the opposite of the appearance his name gives. More often, he appears troubled, frustrated, and sad. ![]() Willy went on to kill himself in a car accident to collect life insurance money so that Biff could use the insurance money to start his own business, although, at the funeral, Biff felt that he did not want to follow in his father's footsteps instead, Happy became a businessman.Biff Loman displays only a small measure of his youthful confidence, enthusiasm, and affection. Ultimately, Biff argued with his father and tried to convince him that both of them were meant to be ordinary people, but a delusional Willy had the wrong impression that Biff would follow him into the business world. He went between his family and working as a farmhand in the American West, as he liked working with his hands outdoors, but he also wanted to make his father proud of him. Biff, who had previously idolized his father, became disillusioned with him, and he decided not to enter business. He was a football star with lots of potential in high school, but he failed math his senior year and dropped out summer school due to seeing his father with another woman while visiting him in Boston. Once he learns that Willy is having an affair, Biff rejects Willy and his philosophy. Biff Loman (1915-) was the older son of Willy and Linda Loman.īiff Loman was born in Brooklyn, New York City to a Jewish- American family, the son of Willy and Linda Loman, and the older brother of Happy Loman. Biff’s perception of Willy as the ideal father is destroyed after Biff’s trip to Boston. ![]()
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