Thursday, March 5, 2009

death of a Salesman 6

Before Biff goes to Boston he has this picture perfect image of Willy, just like Willy has a perfect image of his sons, but especially Biff. He thinks his father is an amazing salesman, who is extremely well liked and goes throughout everyday meeting people and making money. When Biff goes to Boston, this perfect picture of his dad completely dissolves. When he first arrives, the first thing Willy does is lie about The Women who is in his bathroom, when Biff starts to ignore Willy because he knows he s lying, Willy starts changing the story to make it sound better for his sake. Then the Women completely ruins it for Willy because she asks for the stockings he promised her and keeps talking about how she is naked. Biff at this moment looses all trust in his father. He was someone Biff always looked up too, but when he realized he did something as low as have a mistress and give his mothers stockings away, Willy wasn't even worth Biffs trust anymore. He was a completely different man to Biff now. Also, the only reason Biff worked so hard in some of the things he did, like football, was because he wanted to make Willy proud. Before Boston, he was going to go to summer school, if the teacher wouldn't listen to Willy about the extra points, and pass the class so he could graduate, but now he has no reason to try and succeed because the man he was working hard for had died.

1 comment:

Dub D said...

I really like your thoughts on why Biff loses respect for his father when he visits his hotel in Boston. I also thought these same reasons.