Character Analysis
Biff Loman is the son of Willy Loman and Linda Loman, and the brother of Happy Loman. In the play Biff has an estranged relationship with his father, however they were once very close. Biff was everything Willy wanted in a son, he was a star athlete and had a bright future ahead of him. However their relationship hit a turning point when Biff discovered his father was having an affair while away in Boston. Once biff learned this news he was clearly heartbroken, and said to his father “ Don’t touch me, you-liar! You fake! You phony little fake! You fake!”(Miller Act 2: 121). As a result, Biff and Willy’s relationship crumbled and was never really mended.
Willy Loman is the main focus of the play. Willy is a father, a husband, …show more content…
Linda cares very deeply for her husband, and it is made very clear to the reader that Linda would do anything to protect Willy, and won’t let anyone hurt him in anyway. There are instances when Willy is being particularly disrespectful to Linda, yet she allows this treatment to happen and still sticks by him. An example of this takes place between pages 62 and 65, when Biff, Happy, Linda and Willy are all downstairs having a conversation. Willy and Biff are discussing Biff’s plans to see Bill Oliver, throughout the conversation Linda attempts to put her two cents in, but continues to be shot down by her husband. Willy says things like “Stop interrupting!”, “Will you stop!”, “Will you ever let me talk?” (Miller Act 1: 64). Willy frequently condescends her and says hurtful things, yet Linda just takes his verbal abuse and goes on as if nothing 's the matter. This shows that if she is willing to take this sort of a abuse, that she clearly must really love her …show more content…
He was a successful salesman even in his old age, and had the capability of making sales just by picking up the phone, according to Willy Dave was a legend. Willy tells his boss Howard the story of Dave and how he inspired him to be a salesman, saying “And when I saw that , I realized selling was the greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up the phone and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller Act 2: 81). Willy obviously aspires to be like Dave, to him Dave is a symbol of the perfect person in our main character’s eyes, he is everything Willy could ever hope to be. Willy believes that being well liked by other is the most important quality of a man, this is likely due to his low esteem, this is why he admires how popular Dave Singleman
Biff Loman is the son of Willy Loman and Linda Loman, and the brother of Happy Loman. In the play Biff has an estranged relationship with his father, however they were once very close. Biff was everything Willy wanted in a son, he was a star athlete and had a bright future ahead of him. However their relationship hit a turning point when Biff discovered his father was having an affair while away in Boston. Once biff learned this news he was clearly heartbroken, and said to his father “ Don’t touch me, you-liar! You fake! You phony little fake! You fake!”(Miller Act 2: 121). As a result, Biff and Willy’s relationship crumbled and was never really mended.
Willy Loman is the main focus of the play. Willy is a father, a husband, …show more content…
Linda cares very deeply for her husband, and it is made very clear to the reader that Linda would do anything to protect Willy, and won’t let anyone hurt him in anyway. There are instances when Willy is being particularly disrespectful to Linda, yet she allows this treatment to happen and still sticks by him. An example of this takes place between pages 62 and 65, when Biff, Happy, Linda and Willy are all downstairs having a conversation. Willy and Biff are discussing Biff’s plans to see Bill Oliver, throughout the conversation Linda attempts to put her two cents in, but continues to be shot down by her husband. Willy says things like “Stop interrupting!”, “Will you stop!”, “Will you ever let me talk?” (Miller Act 1: 64). Willy frequently condescends her and says hurtful things, yet Linda just takes his verbal abuse and goes on as if nothing 's the matter. This shows that if she is willing to take this sort of a abuse, that she clearly must really love her …show more content…
He was a successful salesman even in his old age, and had the capability of making sales just by picking up the phone, according to Willy Dave was a legend. Willy tells his boss Howard the story of Dave and how he inspired him to be a salesman, saying “And when I saw that , I realized selling was the greatest career a man could want. ‘Cause what could be more satisfying than to be able to go, at the age of eighty-four, into twenty or thirty different cities, and pick up the phone and be remembered and loved and helped by so many different people?” (Miller Act 2: 81). Willy obviously aspires to be like Dave, to him Dave is a symbol of the perfect person in our main character’s eyes, he is everything Willy could ever hope to be. Willy believes that being well liked by other is the most important quality of a man, this is likely due to his low esteem, this is why he admires how popular Dave Singleman