Thursday, January 28, 2016
Death of a Salesman Discussion Q:
BIFF: "...There's nothing more inspiring or -- beautiful than the sight of a mare and a new colt...And now, I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself...I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life" (page 12).
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HAPPY: "See, Biff, everybody around me is so false that I'm constantly lowering my ideals..." (Page 13)
"...maybe I just have an overdeveloped sense of competition or something...Becaus I don't want the girl, and still, I take it and -- I love it!" (Page 14)
Biff and Happy seem to each want fulfillment from life, however they also have very different ideas about how to achieve fulfillment, or so it seems. How do you think their father's differing treatment of them when they were growing up contributed to this? How did their relationship growing up contribute to this?
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Willy has always expected a lot from Biff, which has caused Biff to expect a lot out of himself. On top of that, Biff now expects a lot out of his father as well. Happy on the other side seems to be ignored most of the time, creating low expectations. He is very passive and encouraging like his mother. I think Willy's treatment of his children while they were young directly created their adult personalities, showing the effects that parenting can have on children.
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