To Willy Loman the word value had no meaning to him. The word value means worth, importance, to hold in respect and admiration of. "Willy's sense of honesty is badly distorted, and his recognition of the values of integrity, truth, and responsibility is very slight"(Trudeau, 315) It did not matter to him if you cheat or steal, as long as you get what you need. Throughout the play Willy steals or cheats in order to satisfy his wants. One example is when Willy tells his sons, Biff and Happy to go over

Biff "is seriously engaged upon the quest for self-identity and serves as a foil to his father"(Gunton,371). For Biff, Willy has great hopes and dreams. Biff is the star football player, planning to attend the University of Virginia after graduation and popular with all the neighborhood kids. Biff showed great promise of being a great leader and of being an excellent football player. This makes Willy look upon Biff as having all the personal attractiveness necessary for a successful career as a salesman. He thought that since Biff is the star football player and popular with the neighborhood kids he must be well liked and would be a success in life. Biff followed all of Willy's dreams and did not develop any of his own. When Willy told Biff that personal attractiveness is more important than to excel scholastically, Biff believed him. Willy's dreams for Biff were put to an end when Biff fails math and will not graduate. Biff goes to Boston to tell his father the bad news and asks him to go talk to the teacher about giving Biff the four extra points. Biff feels Willy can influence the math teacher because if the math teach "saw the kind of man you are, and you just talked to him in your way, I'm sure he'd come through for me"(Miller). But, Willy, never went to talk to the teacher because Biff catches his father hiding a strange women in the bathroom. Biff realizes that his father so called values and dreams he has put upon Biff his whole life are false. "Willy wanted his son Biff, to succeed where he has failed, thus ruining Biff's life with impossible aspirations"(Gunton, 376). Biff's dream of going to the University of Virginia came to an end and he "stole himself out of every job since high school"(Miller). This is because Willy blew Biff so full of hot air he could never stand taking orders from anybody. If Willy favored his sons equally, taught them to excel in school and not personal attractiveness, the Loman family would have been much happier and Willy Loman's life might have been saved. Instead, Willy Loman feels neglected, Biff Loman only sees Willy as a fake and Willy Loman's life came to a tragic ending.

to where they're building the apartment houses and steal some sand. This is so Willy and his sons can rebuild the entire front stoop. A week before this, Biff stole a bunch of lumber from the same apartment house. "Willy's manipulating appearances, presents Biff's childhood as zeal and initia

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