Biff and Happy Death of a Salesman
Biff and Happy in Death of A Salesman It is said that the sins of the father are visited upon the sons. In Arthur Miller's Death of A Salesman, the shortcomings of the father, Willy Loman, have been transmitted to his two sons in such a damaging way that the two sons are crippled for life -- but in very different ways. This paper will examine those ways by analyzing the young men's relationship with each other, their mother, and most importantly, their father. “The Loman sons - Biff, 34, and the younger Happy - are refraction’s of Willy.” (Lyons) Biff Loman, the older brother, is his father's golden boy. For Willy Loman, his other son Happy, barely exists except as a backup to Biff, someone to hold Biff’s helmet on the way to the big game. Both Biff and Happy, up through high school, absorbed all their dad's platitudes and values: the importance of "personal attractiveness," of being "well-liked," of sweet-talking their way into any situation regardless of the lies they told or the methods they used to get there. They also absorbed a deluded self-aggrandizement, a warped concept of who they are. In Biff's case it was based on who Biff was twenty years before -- a high school football hero -- a boy who "looked like Adonis" and was
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Approximate Word count = 1407
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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