![]() This crushed Biff’s image of his father Willy’s successful life has been only been a lie. When Biff went to Boston to tell his father that he wasn’t graduating, and ask him to talk to his Math teacher, he found Willy with another woman. ![]() Being well liked wasn’t enough to help Biff graduate from high school failing his math class was the beginning of his adult failures, and his inability to hold a job. Willy ignored his petty thefts because he was a hometown hero. Biff was everything Willy wanted him to be - star athlete, popular with the girls, well liked all around. As the oldest son, Biff is the personification of all of Willy’s dreams, and as a teenager, he worshipped his father. Linda tries to protect Willy from himself, but her efforts are in vain.īiff Loman: Willy’s oldest son. She protects him when Biff fights with him, defends him to her sons who think he’s going crazy, and she respects him enough to pretend she doesn’t know that he’s trying to kill himself and that he’s lost his salary. If anything, she loves him more because of it. She realizes that Willy is just an ordinary man, but she doesn’t fault him for it. She sees what her husband is going through, and she supports him and loves him despite his many failures and weakness. ![]() Linda Loman: Willy’s wife, mother of Biff, and Happy. He decides that the best thing he can do for his family is to award them the money from his life insurance policy by killing himself. His sons are mediocre bums he’s no longer able to provide for his family no one knows him anymore, and he feels like a failure. As Willy grows older and realizes that he has failed to meet his own expectations as a salesman, his life seems wasted. Although Willy encouraged their success, he neglected to instill any sense of integrity or morality in the boys, and it leads to their ultimate failure in his eyes. Willy believes that success comes from being well liked, and he instilled this belief in his sons, Biff and Happy, who were his brightest hopes in life. His older brother, Ben, who also left when Willy was young, and made a fortune in the diamond mines of Africa when he was only 21 years old, is another measuring stick for Willy. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his craftsman/salesman father who left his family for Alaska.
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