Light slowly appears on the stage, while a flute plays in the background. The tall, angular silhouette of Manhattan lies in the backdrop. The home is a simple house, sitting before a surplus of apartment complexes in Brooklyn, New York.
Miller writes detailed stage directions, with lighting, sound, and prop placement, signifying the movement of every item and every character in his play. After Willy committed suicide Biff said that “didn’t know who he was.” There was a discord between Biff and Willy for over 15 years, and during that time he was not able to hold any job steadily.The play opens with a lengthy description of the Loman house. Unlike his father, he accepts the truth of life and realizes his failure. After the incident of Bill Oliver’s office, Biff determined to cut the web of lies which was surrounding the Loman family and wanted to live in realism. Willy regarded Biff as an underachiever, while Biff thinks that he is trapped in Willy’s ambitious fantasies. Instead, Biff hates his father and all his ideas or philosophies. He considers Willy to be a “fake,” and stops believing him, or following Willy’s grand fantasies of success. Willy – fakeīiff finally realizes that Willy has created his fake image in front of his family, society and for himself as well. When Biff was in school he stole a football and instead of scolding Biff for his act of stealing the football, his initiative was praised by Willy.
It is not surprising that Biff’s tendency to steal things continued throughout his adult life since Willy used to encourage Biff’s thefts during childhood and teenage, while he was growing up. Biff never raised questions at Willy, even though he could see that Willy was going against the rules.
He realized that Willy was unfaithful to his mother and it changed the whole of his perception about Willy, whom he used to adore and considered all his stories to be true, he even followed his father’s philosophy that anything is possible as long as a person is “well-liked”.Īnd then Biff starts deteriorating in his life. He was the only member of the family who knew about Willy’s affair and started disliking his father badly. When he was a teenager he discovered that his father, Willy Loman had an extramarital affair, the incident created a bad impact on Biff’s mind. And Willy was responsible for all these since he never encouraged Biff to do well in school. However, he never paid attention to his schoolwork and failed in math. Biff was a star football player in his high school. Biff was Willy’s oldest son and Willy was really crazy about him.
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