5/8/2023 0 Comments Biff loman quotes![]() To follow his dreams of owning a ranch, or not to follow his dreams and stay in the vicinity of his father who loved and supported him as a child. As he got older, and as his father deteriorated, it became clearer to Biff that to live up to his father’s expectations would probably be the only way to save his old man. It was only after the bombshell of discovering his father’s affair that Biff began to move away from what his father wanted. When he was a child, he wanted nothing more than to please his father. This dream for Biff only arose during his adult life. Biff’s American dream and general idea of success seems to be to free himself from the chains of his father’s expectations and to move on to living his own chosen life, which includes owning a ranch. That’s all they have to know, and I go right through.” (1034, Act 1) Someone, accordingly to Willy, can create personal interest and will get ahead regardless of how intelligent he is, just as long as the buyers are excited when he walks through the door. You take me, for instance, I never have to wait in line to see a buyer. “(…) Because the man who makes an appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who gets ahead. ![]() Unfortunately, Willy pushed this view into Biff’s head so far that Biff didn’t put the effort into school that would have enabled him to pass math and graduate high school, thereby allowing him to move onto the University of Virginia. Willy was unable to succeed in doing so through a lifelong career as a salesman and living under the ideology that being well-liked was far more important than actually working hard to be successful. Willy’s American dream is to leave his thumbprint on the world through his oldest child Biff. However, this is where the views become different and seemingly conflicting. It is apparent that they are in fact American dreams because they both deal with success and that character’s idea of success. Throughout Death of a Salesman, Miller portrays two ideas of the American dream. ![]() Arthur Miller uses his play Death of a Salesman to do just that and absolutely succeeds in doing so. Though that is only one idea of the American dream, a shallow analysis that can and should go farther. The American dream normally associated with nineteen fifties America is a small family, cookie cutter house, and maybe even a dog. The American Dream throughout the ages has stood as each person’s idea of success.
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