Happy is like Willy and he is lost in his own life, but he cannot come to face towards defeat. She doesn’t understand what is going on between Willy and Biff and why there is tension, Linda is very caring for Willy and “she more than loves him” and she is very loyal and supportive of him. As Biff says “Why does dad mock me all the time?” Biff also lacks self-assurance because of the uncertainty about his father’s attitude towards him, and his doubts about his own life and future. Willy feels very proud of biff, and that he has achieved a lot in his life. Willy lives in New York as he has moved their after rejecting the offer to go to Alaska, instead he became a New York salesman, to follow the ‘American dream’ So he had hoped he could go into New York with nothing and leave ‘rich’ This formed part of the ‘phoney American dream’īiff is an unemployed, thirty-four year old failure, but that is not what his father Willy thinks.
We are told, “his exhaustion is apparent” Willy starts of as a ‘normal’ salesman but he slowly starts to degenerate into a gibbering wreck. Willy a sixty something year old successful man, or that is what he thinks.
