Willy Lom Father Son Relationships

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Family relationships are important in life and in novels, it shows you the interactions of the characters have to one another. It sets the situations of what is going on between the characters and actions toward each other. A huge relationship when growing up is the father and son. This relationship is a critical impact in ones life weather it is a normal healthy relationship or complete opposite. In the Novel “Death Of A Salesman” by “Arthur Miller,”shows that the character Willy Loman who is the father of two sons who names are “Happy” and “Bliff.” The interaction between Willy and his son Biff is disconnected and unstable.

In the novel “Death Of A Salesman,” you are introduced to the main character named Willy Loman who is a struggling …show more content…

In a the novel Willy says “ You got greatness in you, Biff. . . You got all kinds of greatness" with so much attention being drawn to “Biff,” “Happy” Willy youngest son doesn’t get any attention and is barely spoken to. Throughout the story “Happy,” decides to be what “Biff,”doesn’t want to be for his father attention and to also believe he will be truly happy. Happy later’d finds out that he isn’t happy with his decision. He says, “It’s what I always wanted. My own apartment, a car, and plenty of women. And still, goddammit, I’m lonely." Happy relationship with his father is also unstable. He has lived his whole life wanting to please his father and finally give him attention but finds out he is miserable on what he has become. In a father-son relationship it is the father responsibility to be the idol, the goals, the hero so they can have someone to admire, but not in this shaky …show more content…

His focus in life was to be popular and well known to the world, but wasn’t able to make it there, so he actually looks at his two sons as heroes more than he see’s himself. Even Biff’s not a saint...Ever since High School Biffs been fired from his past jobs because of his habit of stealing, but although Biff does these terrible things he is glorified by his father rather than punished. In the story Biff steals a football from school and Willy just justifies it by saying “It’s ok...He’s popular.” Also Biff lacks discipline and also education, for example Bernard is a person who takes education and school serious and informs Willy that his son is failing class, but Willy response/excuse was “Bernard can get the best marks in school, . . . but when he gets out into the business world . . . you are going to be five times ahead of him. . . . The man who makes an appearance in the business world . . . is the man who gets ahead. Be liked and you will never want" with so many praise to both “Biff” and “Happy” they aren’t raised to humble but rather to feel like everything should be handed to them in their

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