... 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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... 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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• Grade Level: High School

... '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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• Grade Level: High School

... 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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... 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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... 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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... 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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• Grade Level: High School

... 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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• Grade Level: High School