-Act II
This act is the last conversation between Willy and Biff. Biff told Willy that he would leave and never got back because he thought it could make his father feel better and prevent Willy from killing himself. Additionally, since Willy’s expectation is too high for Biff and Billy just wanted to be himself, so he tried to leave to get freedom. However, Willy thought Biff was avoiding taking the responsibility of his expectation and threw away all the chance he made for Biff. Biff is always spiting him. In Willy’s opinion, his affair caused the failure of Biff. Before Biff discovered his father’s affair, he thought Willy was great man who support and love his family. Afterwards, he thought Willy was fake and rejected Willy behind his facade. For example, when Biff discovered the adultery, he rejected his father to help him graduate from school and yield to his father that: “You’re phony little fake.” Their relationship was hard to rebuild and Biff began to despise Willy’s dream and ambitions. Even how much Willy pay for his family, it was nothing in Biff’s eyes.
Nevertheless, from Biff perspective, his failure was caused by not well-known. He said he was a dime a dozen. What’s more, he expressed he lived in a absurd lie because he tried his best to be a person which was not he expected, but he was talking this ridiculous dream for 15 years.
At last, Biff tearing in his arms. He tried to make Willy know what he mean that he was suffering under Willy’s high expectation. But Willy misunderstood it. He thought Biff “likes” him and Linda corrected him. That make Willy firmly believed his dream that the success was based on well-known. Thus, he killed himself to get insurance money for his family. He sold his life to his family.
-Funeral
At the beginning of the whole movie, Biff indicated that he wanted there are a plenty of people attended his funeral because he though success was based on renown. Tragically, only five people was on his funeral: his family and his neighbor.
In front of the tombstone, Charley said that “A salesman is got to a dream, boy. It comes with the territory.” Only Charley removed blames from Willy and only he understand Willy’s dream. For salesman, they have to dream big even it sounded absurd. They need to image the good situation such as “shoeshine”, “smiling face”. They were kind of living between illusion and the struggle of reality.
Except Charley, no one thought Willy’s dream was right. Both Linda and Biff thought he had a wrong dream. He was born in poor but he raised his family by hard working. However, he didn’t receive the reward of “America Dream” and he still keep believing it instead of reconsidering his future. He was stuck in the myth of “American Dream”. Thus I thought Willy had wrong dream.
This act is the last conversation between Willy and Biff. Biff told Willy that he would leave and never got back because he thought it could make his father feel better and prevent Willy from killing himself. Additionally, since Willy’s expectation is too high for Biff and Billy just wanted to be himself, so he tried to leave to get freedom. However, Willy thought Biff was avoiding taking the responsibility of his expectation and threw away all the chance he made for Biff. Biff is always spiting him. In Willy’s opinion, his affair caused the failure of Biff. Before Biff discovered his father’s affair, he thought Willy was great man who support and love his family. Afterwards, he thought Willy was fake and rejected Willy behind his facade. For example, when Biff discovered the adultery, he rejected his father to help him graduate from school and yield to his father that: “You’re phony little fake.” Their relationship was hard to rebuild and Biff began to despise Willy’s dream and ambitions. Even how much Willy pay for his family, it was nothing in Biff’s eyes.
Nevertheless, from Biff perspective, his failure was caused by not well-known. He said he was a dime a dozen. What’s more, he expressed he lived in a absurd lie because he tried his best to be a person which was not he expected, but he was talking this ridiculous dream for 15 years.
At last, Biff tearing in his arms. He tried to make Willy know what he mean that he was suffering under Willy’s high expectation. But Willy misunderstood it. He thought Biff “likes” him and Linda corrected him. That make Willy firmly believed his dream that the success was based on well-known. Thus, he killed himself to get insurance money for his family. He sold his life to his family.
-Funeral
At the beginning of the whole movie, Biff indicated that he wanted there are a plenty of people attended his funeral because he though success was based on renown. Tragically, only five people was on his funeral: his family and his neighbor.
In front of the tombstone, Charley said that “A salesman is got to a dream, boy. It comes with the territory.” Only Charley removed blames from Willy and only he understand Willy’s dream. For salesman, they have to dream big even it sounded absurd. They need to image the good situation such as “shoeshine”, “smiling face”. They were kind of living between illusion and the struggle of reality.
Except Charley, no one thought Willy’s dream was right. Both Linda and Biff thought he had a wrong dream. He was born in poor but he raised his family by hard working. However, he didn’t receive the reward of “America Dream” and he still keep believing it instead of reconsidering his future. He was stuck in the myth of “American Dream”. Thus I thought Willy had wrong dream.