Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Death of a salesman 1

Biff and Happy are two very confused characters. Obviously, Biff is a young man who doesn't know what he wants out of his life. He is constantly changing jobs, and still hasn't found anything he is happy with or extremely successful with. Happy, who has a steady job and is looking to get moved up in, isn't at a point where he is happy in his life either. He is just wanting to stay in the job long enough to be promoted and be able to have that seat of power and see what it feels like briefly, before he runs off with Biff out west to try and find a place from them to get settled and perhaps become happy. While Happy is much more successful and has more than Biff has, he is still an extremely lonely young man. Throughout these first few pages he brags about his ability to get any girl he wants, but in the end he is still very lonely because he hasn't gotten settled with anyone yet, and that is what he wants more than anything. Neither one of these characters are very happy about their overall life. In order for Happy to feel good about him self, is to lure all of his executives wives or girlfriends in, and have an affair with them. This makes him feel powerful, and like he is better than someone in someway. Biff is happy for a brief time, and then he realizes that he has not made any progress in his life yet. Over all, neither one of the characters are very reliable. Obviously, neither one of them are very loyal because one is going behind his bosses back and having an affair with their lover and the other is switching jobs constantly which makes him not loyal to his employers at all.

1 comment:

Lauren V. said...

Abbey-
Great Blog! I thought you nailed Biff and Happy right on their heads. There were a few points that I had not thought about until after reading your blog; for example I did not think of them not being reliable because they slept around with their bosses wives and girlfriends.
Good Job Abbey