When Biff catches Willy in his hotel room with The Woman, he loses faith in his father, and his dream of passing math and going to college dies. The Woman's attention and admiration boost Willy's fragile ego. Willy's mistress when Happy and Biff were in high school. Ben has recently died and appears only in Willy's "daydreams." Willy regards Ben as a symbol of the success that he so desperately craves for himself and his sons. Mid-50s when he is seen in 1928, African American man Bernard's success is difficult for Willy to accept because his own sons' lives do not measure up. Although Willy used to mock Bernard for studying hard, Bernard always loved Willy's sons dearly and regarded Biff as a hero. Charley gives Willy money to pay his bills, and Willy reveals at one point, choking back tears, that Charley is his only friend.īernard is Charley's son and an important, successful lawyer. Charley owns a successful business and his son, Bernard, is a wealthy, important lawyer. Although he works as an assistant to an assistant buyer in a department store, Happy presents himself as supremely important. Happy represents Willy's sense of self-importance, ambition, and blind servitude to societal expectations.
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Happy has lived in Biff's shadow all of his life, but he compensates by nurturing his relentless sex drive and professional ambition. He cannot ignore his instincts, which tell him to abandon Willy's paralyzing dreams and move out West to work with his hands. Biff represents Willy's vulnerable, poetic, tragic side. Since then, his kleptomania has gotten him fired from every job that he has held. He failed math, however, and did not have enough credits to graduate. Biff led a charmed life in high school as a football star with scholarship prospects, good male friends, and fawning female admirers. She has nurtured the family through all of Willy's misguided attempts at success, and her emotional strength and perseverance support Willy until his collapse. Occasionally, she seems to be taken in by Willy's self-deluded hopes for future glory and success, but at other times, she seems far more realistic and less fragile than her husband. Linda suffers through Willy's grandiose dreams and self-delusions. The overwhelming tensions caused by this disparity, as well as those caused by the societal imperatives that drive Willy, form the essential conflict of Death of a Salesman. When Willy's illusions begin to fail under the pressing realities of his life, his mental health begins to unravel. Nor do his sons fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. Willy believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it. An insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman.
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