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What Biff Learns: Death of a Salesman

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A 3 page paper which argues that Biff, in “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, learns that his father’s dreams were wrong. Bibliography lists 1 source.

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Willy Loman. Willy is a man who does not have the depth or intelligence to really see where he went wrong in assuming that hard work and appearance was all it took to be a success. He has two sons, Biff and Happy, who are reflections of him, as is often the case with fathers and sons. The following paper examines the character of Biff and argues that he learned his fathers dreams were all wrong. Biff and His Lesson In the beginning of the play we have Biff having come home. He is a grown up and has lived away from home for quite some time. At one point he is talking to his brother, Happy, about his life thus far: "I spent six or seven years after high school trying to work myself up" as he held many jobs trying to get further ahead in business, the world of his father so to speak (Miller 22). He believed what his father had preached, that one must make a name for himself in the world of business or sales and that only through such an occupation could a man make money and amount to something. Then he discusses, with his brother, his time away from home when he worked on ranches where he states, "theres nothing more inspiring or-beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt" (Miller 22). In this we see him begin to shine, to sense something about himself, a passion, a love, a sense of identity having worked on the farms. But then he interrupts himself, trying to tell himself that such a perspective is useless because he was only making "twenty-eight dollars a week" (Miller 22). In this we obviously see the influence ...

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