Biff feels that Willy puts too much stress on him and is always criticizing. Biff is trying to figure out his life throughout the play without regard to WillyвЂ™s yelling at him. He has always had high hopes for Biff and never lets him forget this fact. Willy wants Biff to make something of his life since Willy never had the opportunity to do something with his. WillyвЂ™s relationship with his son Biff is very tentative and explosive. Willy does not think highly of Charley and he is jealous because Charley is successful and has always been success Willy has not. WillyвЂ™s next door neighbor Charley offers him a job but instead of seizing the opportunity, Willy is insulted. For Willy, this would have been the height of his success. Ben had gone to Africa and discovered a diamond mind that created some wealth for him until he died. He gets agitated at one point and he wishes he had gone to Alaska with Ben so that the two of them would be wealthy. Willy goes in and out of his daydreams throughout the play. His wife tries to console him because she is afraid for him and what he might do.

This seems to be a recurring theme in the story for Willy because he feels that he is also unloved by his family (SparkNotes, 2009). He states that it did not go well because he is not good at sales and because the people he works for do not like him. Willy talks about opening a business that will be bigger than the neighborвЂ™s business (his neighbor is very successful) but the plans go no where (SparkNotes, 2009).ДЄt the beginning of the story Willy is talking to his wife and trying to convince her of the lovely time he had in New York and how it was a very successful trip he eventually tells her the truth. Willy never really talks to his boys as he does in his fantasy. Willy begins to have a daydream about his sons getting along very well and about how he as their father joins into the conversation. WillyвЂ™s two sons have conversations about how they would like to by a ranch out west, work it and settle down (Johanssen, 1997). Willy spends most of his time yelling at Biff about being a better son or talking to the ghost of Ben. He is never able to relate to his family because of his fantasies of being someone else in a different place and time. Central to the story is WillyвЂ™s relationship with is wife Linda and his sons Biff and Happy. He is in need of a different job but he does not want to do something different with his life although his family and next door neighbor encourage him to do something different. When the story begins, he has come home from a sales trip that was not as successful as he wished for it to be. Willy Loman is a salesman and he has worked for the same company for many years. вЂњDeath of a SalesmanвЂќ is about a dysfunctional family that has difficulty with their sixty year old father.

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