Biff professes, "Pop! I'm a dime a dozen, and so are you!" This aggravates Willy, who protests, "I am not a dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman, and you are Biff Loman!" (Miller PAGE #) Willy Loman was just an ordinary man; in an extraordinary tragedy. In his mind, he believed that he was a rare, unique individual; when in reality, we was just an average man. Throughout death of a salesman there are many different motifs. A motif is a recurring subject, theme, idea, or phrase; motifs are very common in literary work. There are many different motifs that occur often during Death of a Salesman, the ones that appear the most would have to be: Willy contradicting himself, Happy seeking attention, and all three boys telling lies during the course of
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While Happy is talking to a girl at a bar he starts to talk about his brother, he says, “His name is Biff. You might’ve heard of him. Great football player.” The girl then asks “Really? What team?” Happy tells her that, “Biff is a quarterback with the New York Giants.” (Miller PAGE #). Happy told an extremely huge lie to a girl about Biff just to get her attention. He doesn’t care what he has to lie about, as long as he gets what he wants; he learns that by watching his father. Biff is finally fed up with his Happys, Willys, and his own continual lying, he tells Willy “We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house!”, Happy interjects saying, “We always told the truth!”, Biff then argues with Happy, stating, “You big blow, are you the assistant buyer? You’re one of the two assistants to the assistant aren’t you?”, Happy then tells Biff, “We’ll I’m practically—” Biff has had enough he interrupts and he finally says to Happy, “You’re practically full of it! We all are! And I’m through with it.” (Miller PAGE #) Biff is trying to make Happy understand that lies have been drilled into their heads, as far back as they can remember.”I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.” (Miller PAGE #). Biff is starting to come to the realization that his whole life has been a lie, this upsets him until he reaches his breaking point. He then decides that he is going to leave and never come back, doing so enables him to escape from the never ending lies told by his father and
While Happy is talking to a girl at a bar he starts to talk about his brother, he says, “His name is Biff. You might’ve heard of him. Great football player.” The girl then asks “Really? What team?” Happy tells her that, “Biff is a quarterback with the New York Giants.” (Miller PAGE #). Happy told an extremely huge lie to a girl about Biff just to get her attention. He doesn’t care what he has to lie about, as long as he gets what he wants; he learns that by watching his father. Biff is finally fed up with his Happys, Willys, and his own continual lying, he tells Willy “We never told the truth for ten minutes in this house!”, Happy interjects saying, “We always told the truth!”, Biff then argues with Happy, stating, “You big blow, are you the assistant buyer? You’re one of the two assistants to the assistant aren’t you?”, Happy then tells Biff, “We’ll I’m practically—” Biff has had enough he interrupts and he finally says to Happy, “You’re practically full of it! We all are! And I’m through with it.” (Miller PAGE #) Biff is trying to make Happy understand that lies have been drilled into their heads, as far back as they can remember.”I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.” (Miller PAGE #). Biff is starting to come to the realization that his whole life has been a lie, this upsets him until he reaches his breaking point. He then decides that he is going to leave and never come back, doing so enables him to escape from the never ending lies told by his father and