even care for him, new stockings, all the while Linda, who does nothing but shower him with her utmost affection, is stuck mending her old ones. Through this factor and all the supplementary aspects of Willy's affair Miller proves to the audience that Loman is unaware of the difference between love and well-likeness. It is not so much so the definition that Loman is not able to distinct, in this case, but rather in contrast in intrinsic value. The play's protagonist understands that the two do not equate, however, he mistakenly places more value on being well-liked then being loved.…
This, however, does not bother him. He does not look to wealth to buy happiness. He sees material objects as of use, or not. By limiting himself from placing emotional value in physicalities, he does not rely on them for contentment, and instead is able to find it in life itself.…
He finds happiness by leaving his past life and journeying into the…
In Arthur Miller's the Death of a Salesman, the relationship between Willy Loman and Biff Loman shows the positive impact that the father can have on his son’s life. In the play, when Willy’s mind flashes back to when his sons were still in high school, he sees a time when he had a positive influence on both his sons. When he comes back from one of his trips to watch Biff’s football game, Biff tells him, “This Saturday, Pop, this Saturday—just for you, I’m going to break through for a touchdown”(Miller 19). Despite the fact that Biff is not supposed to be getting a touchdown for his team, he’ll do it anyway, for his father, the man he so admires and wants to impress. In order to impress his father, Biff ends up scoring more for his team to…
Finally, we have to reach that emotional self-fulfillment to be entirely happy. In the end it isn’t material things or pleasure that push us to happiness but ourselves and our fulfillment. In Daniel Haybron’s Happiness and Its Discontents he jumps into the meaning of what happiness…
He made himself blind to the many parts of his life where he didn't need selling to be truly happy and self-fulfilled. An obvious example is Willy’s love and sense of accomplishment when he is working with his hands (building). “I’d build a little guest house. Cause I got so many fine tools, all I’d need would be a little lumber and some peace of mind.” - page 50, and his feeling of accomplishment in building the front stoop : Biff stated “You know something, Charley, there’s more of him in that front stoop than in all the sales he ever made,” to which Charlie replied , “Yeah.…
Chris’ interpretation of happiness was profoundly simple; he wanted to find who he really was. He didn’t want…
[…] People become happy, in other words, when they get what they want. (Smith, E., 2013) For those who eventually “reach” happiness, they end up discovering that happiness is fleeting. Those who have meaning in their life, despite not always being happy necessarily, tend to go through life not feeling as “empty” or…
In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman through his character Linda Lohman unveils the importance of not letting grudges or disagreement get in the way of helping and caring for the people that mean the most. When Biff is about to go to bed Linda shockingly explains that Willy has been trying to kill himself by sucking gas from the water heater. “It happened to fall out – was a length of rubber pipe”(pg 43). Biff did not know this was going on and now offers to stay at home and find a job in marketing and sales to help with the stress Willy is under at this point. He puts aside what he and his father have against each other and wants to help his father.…
Playwright, Arthur Miller, in his play, “Death of a Salesman,” illustrates the what he considers the American dream through the words and actions of Biff Loman. Mr. Miller's purpose is to utilize Biff Loman to represent the realistic and fantastic side of the American dream, by adopting a recognitional tone in order to create a moment of realization that appeals to the audience's own sense of emotions and perspective about life. Biff begins his speech by using precise and symbolic diction that pulls the readers into the moment as it creates a unique image of self for himself. In his speech, Biff utilizes the phrases "suddenly I stopped" and "in the middle of that building" to place himself in a position of consciousness that appeals to…
In this two pages we can see how both Biff and Happy are not satisfied with the lives they have and do not know what they exactly want. We can notice that Biff has inherited his father’s weakness for which he is lost and is unsuccessful; but unlike Willy and Happy, he feels the urge to pursue the truth about himself. Both, his father and brother are not able to accept the pathetic lives they have, Biff accepts his failure and confronts it. Happy is more naturally successful, but he has lived in the shadow of Biff all his life, which gives him no escape from his condemned self. When Happy says to Biff “what do you mean?”…
In the excerpt from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman we as the audience see that Willy who plays as the main character tends to get angry very quickly which I can relate because I have very low temper. When the play hits to act one and act two he flies into anger with biff. The excerpt also shows us how he feels about biff because biff was like the son who he put all his hopes in. Just like our parents expect so much from us just so we can have a better life and a better future willy is upset over the fact that biff has not been able to make a good career for him and that disappoints him just like it would disappoint our parents if we have not made something out of ourselves after everything they do for us to have a better career then them…
Biff’s father loved this about him. Biff loved making his dad proud of him, in a way Mr. Loman was living through his…
Authors use setting to set the mood and could have a menace effect on the plot and the characters. A negative setting allows the readers to connect to the characters and their behaviour. The setting sets the stage and builds the atmosphere to enhance emotions. The setting could be portrayed positively or negatively and Scott Fitzgerald and Arthur Miller both depict their novels to be illustrated negatively. Therefore, in The Great Gatsby Fitzgerald 's use of setting is negative and is emphasized through dysfunctional relationships and self destruction.…
Arthur Miller emphasizes the importance of family relationships in his play “Death of a Salesman.” Through the characters, and their actions, Miller demonstrates to his audience how drastically one person’s actions can affect the rest of the family since everyone 's actions affected each other to some degree. Willy’s actions and attitude greatly distressed himself, his wife, Linda, and son Biff, resulting for all three characters to have realizations in the end. Willy learned that Biff had always loved and cared for him even when Willy felt otherwise; Linda learned that she was never able to live a happy life until Willy died; and Biff, who underwent the greatest epiphany, finally accepted the fact that he should have lived his life for…