Willie feels that he must correct the mistakes that his own father made in his life and try to raise the "ideal family", although this is not specified orally through the text, this notion can be inferred by the way Willie is seen in with his sons, in the flashbacks that he drifts in to, you can see the standard American family , a working class father, a house wife (Linda), The elder, all star athlete son whose tragic flaw is stealing (Biff), and the hard working, ambitious, society serving son, who grew up in the elder famed sons shadow, and is tragically flawed with a love of sex (happy). ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

At this critical point in Willie's existence, his oldest son Biff has returned home for a visit, and Willie's old desire for his son to be a traditional success in life is rekindled. ... When Willy was deciding to go with his brother to look for his father he met Dave Singleman. ... At the age of sixty Willy had built a family and had two sons. ... Since Willy was never successful as a salesman, "he remains confident that his son Biff will be able to make it big in business because of his good looks and his past glory as a high school football star" what he didn't real...

• Word Count: 2201
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Living partly in the present (1949) and partly in the past (1928), Willy clings to fantasies of success for both himself and his sons, womanizing underachiever Happy and prodigal runaway Biff and simultaneously veils the family's hopeless financial situation. ... With self - sacrificing devotion his dutiful wife Linda tries to keep up the fazade of the successful father and businessman, hoping for better times. Just as his mania has become so distracting that he no longer feels secure driving a car, Biff confronts his father with the lies he has laid out for the family in the course of hi...

• Word Count: 590
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Biff's breakdown began a long time before the audience joins the action, with his father's adultery in Chicago, but there is evidence of it throughout the play. ... However, relations between the separate members become increasingly strained as Willy deteriorates into his world of fantasy; he becomes increasingly alienated from both his sons and seems no longer able to stand the guilt of having cheated on his wife. ... In the play the flute music, a lyrical motif for Willy's father, represents this aspect of the characters" lives; "telling of grass and trees and the horizon". .....

• Word Count: 1911
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Willy believed one only needed to be "well liked" and posses a great deal of personal attractiveness to be successful and carelessly instills his skewed success philosophies on his sons, Biff and Happy. His flawed beliefs of success made it difficult for him to see his own failures and caused him to overlook the successes of others like, his neighbor and only true friend, Charley along with his successful son Bernard. ... Willy convinced his sons that when they "got out in the business world", they would be "five times ahead him." ... Willy is enthralled with the fact that Ben's succes...

• Word Count: 939
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate