![]() ![]() He believed all of Willy’s stories and accepted his philosophy of life that a person can be successful only if he is “well-liked” (Miller 32). Prior to his Boston trip, Biff adorned his father. This is the conflict that lies at the soul of the play. Through his illusions, Willy can not see that what he is planning for Biff is impossible, and Biff can not be successful that way. He wants to be outside on a cattle ranch while his father wants him to see behind the corporate desks. Biff always has this internal struggle between pleasing his father and doing what he feels is right. Willy wants his son to become successful in business. Whenever Willy is unable to bear the present, he recoils in the past, and Biff usually remains present there. Taken in that sense, Biff can be considered as a catalyst of the play. ![]() Willy’s thoughts and actions and his memories, in particular, are driven by Biff. This, in fact, has been the driving force of the plot of the play. The entire play revolves around Biff’s conflict with his father, Willy. He is markedly different from his brother, Happy, who continually urges to prove his parents are right and hence never been able to break through his father’s fantasy world. In his senior years, he flunked in mathematics and so could not complete his graduation. He was a star football player in high school and had scholarships from two universities. The play shows Biff in his early mid-thirties and is an embodiment of a clear-minded person who comes to terms with the somber facts of life at the end of the play. ![]()
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