![]() ![]() He tries “twenty or thirty different jobs since left home” but can’t seem to latch onto anything and stick with it. He realizes that it will not get him anywhere in life, although he “doesn’t know what supposed to want”. He doesn’t want to have the same dream as Willy anymore. At this point, Biff recognizes that his father’s stories of great accomplishments are lies. There he finds that his father is having an affair. After flunking math, Biff goes to Boston to see Willy. Only with self-discovery can Biff develop and follow his own dreams. He never stopped to think what his own dreams were. He plans to go to university, be a star football player and become a salesman because that’s what his father wants. Biff understands that to mean that it’s alright to steal. When Biff stole the football, Willy says that “if anyone else took that ball, there’d be an uproar”. He’s told to “show him how to do it” when Happy is cleaning the car. He is constantly put above everyone else, especially his brother. He is told that his “personal attractiveness” and leadership skills will get him further in life than his schoolwork because “the man that creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead”. To him, having Biff follow in his footsteps and be a success was a way to accomplish the dreams he could never succeed in.īiff took everything his father said to heart. Willy saw him as everything he had wanted to be when he was young. Growing up, Biff received a lot of attention from his father. ![]() With another’s dreams imposed upon him, Biff cannot discover his own desires. The lack of his own dream has led Willy to self-destruction. The fact that there are very few people at his funeral proves how he has been living a false dream all his life and that his success was made up. He thinks that his suicide would prove to his sons that he’s worth something and is well-liked because of the many people that would attend his funeral. To Willy, the ultimate success of his dream would be to have a funeral like Dave Singleman’s. He has to convince himself of his success and that his dreams are right. However, his dreams start to take over his reality when Willy starts talking to himself to the point that “it’s getting embarrassing”. He has to prove to his sons that he’s good at what he does and tells his boys that he’s going to be “bigger than Uncle Charley!īecause Charley is not well-liked”. He would rather “borrow fifty dollars a week and pretend” it’s his salary than accept the fact that “there’s more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made”. Instead of accepting his talents and using them, he clings to the dream that one’s friends determine one’s success. In fact, Willy does not make a lot of sales and doesn’t have many friends, which makes him unhappy. Willy pretends that he’s good at his job and brags that he is known in all the cities he sells in. The combination of Dave Singleman’s popularity and Ben Loman’s success is what Willy thinks his father’s dream was for him. Willy liked the idea that Dave could “pick up the phone and be remembered and loved by so many different people”. He chooses the occupation of a salesman after meeting a man by the name of Dave Singleman. His lack of attention as a child causes Willy to create a world in which he pretends is well-liked. When his older brother, Ben, “walked into the jungle and out, at the age of twenty-one and he was rich”, Willy adopts him as a father figure because of his success. Since he wasn’t given any as a child, Willy develops dreams and expectations that his father might have had for him. Willy Loman’s father left him at a very young age. Willy is often led to failure through the creation of unrealistic dreams. By failing to discover one’s personal and realistic dreams, one cannot be truly happy with their life. Instead of finding his own key, he makes up a reality in which he pretends to be happy. Just as in the play Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, Willy is trying to find happiness in someone else’s dream. So the dreams of someone else cannot bring one happiness. The wrong key will not open the lock no matter how hard one tries. However, a lock will only unlock with one key. To unlock one’s happiness, one must find the right key. The key to happiness is often unveiled by our dreams.
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