Biff Loman is the Willy’s thirty-four-year-old elder son who does not have a clear direction of his life and career; however, what he desires the most is to get away from his father’s expectation. Biff wants to start living for himself instead of his father. “I’m thirty-four years old, I oughta be making my future. That’s when I come running home”(Miller 19). Biff said this when he goes back to home in spring which indicates that he wants and needs to be his own person and accomplish his own success rather than following the well-trodden path Willy constructed.
In respect of the family life of Biff, it is not optimistic to some degree. In the beginning, the father-children relationship is more like the friendship. Biff tries his best to make …show more content…
Once he stole a basketball from the locker room because the coach told him to work on his passing in his high school, and then this bad manner is not be opposed but inspired by Willy. Eventually, this kind of deviant behavior becomes a stain on his face that can never be removed throughout his entire adult life and career life. He gets fired by several times and even go to jail because of the stealing habit. After several years, Biff still follows the tracks of an overthrown chariotre--commit the same error which is stealing. Moreover, he ruins his chance to get a loan from Oliver to start a business this time because he cannot keep himself from stealing the fountain pen from Bill Oliver’s desk. Kleptomania as if becomes the inseparable part of Biff tragically. In terms of the quirk of Biff’s personality, the lack of ambition to make any progresses in career causes his tragic flaw. In my opinion, Biff represents Willy’s vulnerable and tragic side. He cannot ignore his instincts and deceive himself, which tell him to abandon Willy’s paralyzing dreams and move out West to work with his own hands; however, so much does he not desire to advance in life, thus ultimately fails to accord with his life with Willy’s great
In respect of the family life of Biff, it is not optimistic to some degree. In the beginning, the father-children relationship is more like the friendship. Biff tries his best to make …show more content…
Once he stole a basketball from the locker room because the coach told him to work on his passing in his high school, and then this bad manner is not be opposed but inspired by Willy. Eventually, this kind of deviant behavior becomes a stain on his face that can never be removed throughout his entire adult life and career life. He gets fired by several times and even go to jail because of the stealing habit. After several years, Biff still follows the tracks of an overthrown chariotre--commit the same error which is stealing. Moreover, he ruins his chance to get a loan from Oliver to start a business this time because he cannot keep himself from stealing the fountain pen from Bill Oliver’s desk. Kleptomania as if becomes the inseparable part of Biff tragically. In terms of the quirk of Biff’s personality, the lack of ambition to make any progresses in career causes his tragic flaw. In my opinion, Biff represents Willy’s vulnerable and tragic side. He cannot ignore his instincts and deceive himself, which tell him to abandon Willy’s paralyzing dreams and move out West to work with his own hands; however, so much does he not desire to advance in life, thus ultimately fails to accord with his life with Willy’s great