... is. In reality Willy knows he is ot well-liked so he never does take his boys. Bernard enters and tells Biff they must study because his math teacher has threatened to flunk him. Since Biff has three athletic scholarships, Willy finds studying unnecessary. He would much rather see h son practicing or socializing ... unsuccessful. In despair Biff cries to Happy, I can't talk to him! The failure of Biff with Oliver brings to Willy mind the failure Biff was in math. As Biff tells the truth, Willy's dreams overpower Biff's realistic talk. Willy closes his mind to reality and feels that Biff ...

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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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... 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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... somebody else took that ball there"d be an uproar". He felt his "Adonises"! were free of guilt. He emphasized well liked and others approval. It didn't matter if Biff failed math, as long as he could play football. In the end the boys make a big play to become successful, according to what their father told them, but fail. The reader relates ... ...

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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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... made everything in his life much harder than it really was. He seemed to complain and procrastinate about everything. Take for example when Willy was supposed to speak with Biffs math teacher to better Biffs grade in the class. Willy said, I'll tell you what Biff, Let me go down there and have a talk with her and see if I can't just ... ...

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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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... identifies another instance in which Willy does not object to immoral actions when he knows Bernard, the son of Willy's long time friend, is giving Biff the answers to his math test. When Biff steals the football, Willy punishes him, but then he contradicts himself to say, "whatever you have to do to get ahead."" That statement makes the reader consider ... ...

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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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... 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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... , this seen in the way he always tells his son Biff he get somewhere because people like him. Biff was popular and well like in high school, because Biff failed math his senior year and ruined his chance to live out the American dream. Even though Biff realizes he cannot become wealth and successful, Willy still wants Biff to go into ... ...

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... made everything in his life much harder than it really was. He seemed to complain and procrastinate about everything. Take for example when Willy was supposed to speak with Biffs math teacher to better Biffs grade in the class. Willy said, I'll tell you what Biff, Let me go down there and have a talk with her and see if I can't just ... ...

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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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... phony little fake! You fake!" (Miller 121) 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 'University of Virginia,' and as his friend Bernard worded it, "gave up on his life." (Miller 94) Biff's unsuccessful career is ... ...

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... his son Biff could of been a great businessman who could of achieved the American dream. Only if he didn't dwindle his life away at the worthless ranches when he failed math in college. How Biff has affected Willy was in a big way. In the climax of this play, Biff tried to make Willy realize that they both have failed at the ... ...

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... is Willy's inspiration as a father, he has the determination to become a great football player, not to mention to make something with his life and the Loman name. However, Biff flunks math and throws all of his opportunities away, so it seems to his father. It is with these circumstances that Biff and his father begin to separate and part ways. Willy ... ...

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... past. Several times throughout the play we find Willy drifting back to events that occurred many years ago such as his conversations with Ben, Linda's stockings and Biff flunking his math exam. The act of escaping reality and living in the past is often considered a normal psychological end for a person who lives under a lot of stress. Such persons often find refuge ... ...

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