... could not even attend his father's funeral out of lasting anger and secret betrayal. The father-son relationship from Death of a Salesman was ruined during Biff's senior year. Biff fails math and goes into a fit of panic. He flees to Boston to ask for help from his father, Willy, who is there on a business trip. When Biff finds his father in ... a hotel room, Biff admits to his father how he flunked math and needs him to attempt to change his grade. Just than he finds his father cheating on his mother with another woman. Willy claims the woman is a client that needed ... knowing the tr...

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... to become a salesman. Even when Biff grow up, Willy tried to make him a successful man. He was popular and well liked, but he was a little bit to dumb and failed math in his senior year, so he couldn't go to college. That's what hold him back from becoming a successful man. When you read through the part, where you hear, that Biff ... failed math, and Willy is cheating on his wife, you think about, that Willy won't be happy in his life again, because he his too old and still thinks, he is the ... ...

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... son that later is destroyed by Willy. The damage in Willy and Biff's relationship begins when Biff goes to ask Willly to help convince the teacher to reverse his poor Math grade. After Biff talks to his father, he finds "the woman" in the room having an affair with his father. At first, Biff could not wait for Willy to come ... thinking before that his dad was superman- a perfect man who could never fail, but now that Biff sees the truth that his dad is a liar, a cheat, and cannot fix the math grade. Biff is extreamly disappointed with his father, but this incident makes Biff realize th...

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... the knocking continues, Willy tells the woman to wait in the bathroom. He opens the door and finds Biff there. Biff tells Willy that he has flunked math and asks that Willy talk to his math teacher about it. Biff explains that his teacher doesn't like him because he once caught Biff imitating him in class. Biff shows Willy the imitation and ... ...

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... himself, but does not want anyone to see they are human and make mistakes. This is apparent in a flashback Willy has with Bernard. Bernard initiates a conversation with Willy about Biff's math work in an attempt to make him aware Biff's near failure in the class. Bernard wants Willy to understand that the school will not graduate him because he printed University ... that" attitude (1190). Not wanting to see the truth in what Bernard is saying Willy does not even hint to Bernard that he is right about Biff needing help in math and that he will not graduate if he does not shape up. This ...

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... story progresses. In the same dream, a new character is introduced, Bernard, who is a classmate of Biff's a family friend. In this scene Bernard encourages Biff to study his math or else he may fail his math class, and he won't be able to graduate from high school. Willy shoos Bernard off, confident that with Biff's scholarships to several universities, no teachers are going ... ...

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... asking him if he had noticed. The gradual deterioration of the godly tragic protagonist begins when Biff at seventeen comes to Boston on a mission (to get his father to "fix" a math failure) and catches Willy with a lusty woman, then breaks down, weeps and walks out on his father who is on his knees pleading for forgiveness, stripped of his godhood. Willy ... event. "You phony little fake! You fake!" With this incident, Biff's discovery of his father's dishonesty, he does not go to summer school to make up for this failure in math, burns his sneakers on which he had previously printed '...

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... well liked and attractive. He leaves out the vital role that hard work and respect play in a successful business life. For instance, while Biff is in high school, he failed math by four points, and the teacher refuses to give him these points because he did not like Biff. BIFF: See, the reason he hates me, Pop-one day he was ... ...

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... 's tendencies to live in the past. Biff had always been Willy's "pride and joy" because of his athletic success in high school. When Biff's scholarship is revoked because he failed math, Willy is left in disbelief and blames others for Biff's failure. After Biff learns of Willy's affair, he is very bitter toward his father and is unable to complete his ... ...

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... be acceptionally successful because he's physically attractive. The story starts to reflect back to when Willy's sons were in high school. Biff's friend told him he needs to study his math or his teacher will flunk him. Willy thinks that since Biff has three athletic scholarships that he does not need to study. He goes on to tell his sons that ... ...

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... an affair with another woman in Boston and Biff found out about it after his last year in high school. Incidentally, this event probably led to Biff's failure to complete math in summer school, which led to him not graduating high school. By Biff seeing his father having an affair, this really gave him the feeling that life isn't perfect at ... ...

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... ask him to persuade his teacher to pass him. He catches Willy in his hotel room with the woman. Biff loses faith in his father, and his dreams of passing math and going to college die after that day. Biff realizes that Willy is a dreamer he shouts, "You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!" Biff has followed his father's values ... ...

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... much faith in him. Biff would've lived up to Willy's expectations, but Biff's motivation in life was diminished after he witnessed Willy's affair with another woman. Consequently, Biff failed math and was rejected every-time he tried to get a job. Because of his failure, Willy was angered believing that his son was a "lazy bum." Furthermore, what worsened it more was ... ...

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... unsuccessful. As the play unfolds, the observer learns about various incidents in the Loman family past which account for their present condition. Biff had always relied on athletics, failed in math and did not graduate high school. Willy had always encouraged Biff not to concentrate on academics since he had such great athletic potential, does not want to be blamed for ... ...

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... this flashback he is brought back to the most disgusting point of his life, when Biff finds out about his other women, and Willy finds out that his son flunked math. This scene is the turning point in his life, where everything begins to go downhill. The present time had always been horrible, and full of problems, but the alluded to ... ...

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... was really dead. The main epiphany moment in the play was when Biff discovered that Willy was cheating on his mother. Biff had just found out that he had flunked math and took the train to talk to his father. He was all set on taking the class again in the summer so he could graduate and then play football at ... ...

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... tells Biff he has friends in the cellar, and Willy "remembers" that the friends swept out the furnace at Biff's command. When Biff was a senior in high school he failed math, but instead of taking summer school and making up the credit so he could go to college he didn't and Willy does not remember why. In the second act, while ... ...

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... moral values in his children such as not to steal. Willy's denial also does not allow him to see the mistakes Biff is making such as stealing a football or failing math in high school to stealing balls, suits and pens as an adult. Willy comes to recognize one of his flaws but not the other. During the play he realizes through ... ...

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... a person does if they"re well liked. This unwavering belief in his illusions renders Willy incapable of seeing reality.The reality is that Biff is no one. He steals, fails math class and lies about his job, saying that he was a salesman when he actually was nothing more than a shipping clerk. Miller so closely interlinks reality and illusion that like in ... ...

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... event which stopped Biff from pursuing his dreams is revealed. The story takes place in Boston between Biff and Willie. The saga begins with Biff revealing that he has failed math and that he must pass it in summer school to be eligible to go to his long time dream school of the University of Virginia. Biff needs instant permission from ... ...

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... ask him to persuade his teacher to pass him. He catches Willy in his hotel room with the woman. Biff loses faith in his father, and his dreams of passing math and going to college die after that day. Biff realizes that Willy is a dreamer he shouts, "You fake! You phoney little fake! You fake!" Biff has followed his father's values ... ...

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... his own feet in the life because of his father's inadequate advisories. In Death of a Salesman, Biff is a young, pessimist and a lazy person. Although he does not study for state's math exam and fails it, he does not attend to summer school. On the other hand, when he gets older, he describes himself as a nothing. "I"m one dollar an hour, Willy! I tried ... ...

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... up to him. He is taken back to the most disheartening point in his life, when Biff finds out about "The Woman", and he finds out that Biff has flunked math. The audience has now been exposed to the very moment that had started Willy's depression and led to his downward spiral. Since this point is now revealed, and there are ... ...

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... tragic flaw. Biff possesses the same tragic flaw as his father. At first, Biff is convinced of his father's answers to success. Yet he eventually recognizes as a failure after failing math, not attending college or sustaining a decent job. He also finds out about his father's affair in Boston. This makes Biff realize that Willy cannot accept reality. Biff then tries to ... ...

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... people. This led to some problems later on. Biff Loman was a star athlete in high school with multiple scholarships for athletics. He never went to college, though. He had flunked math in his senior year and never went to summer-school; it was mostly an act of spite against his father. Instead, he traveled around the West working on ranches raising ... ...

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