Miller does an incredible job in making Biff's awakening such an exciting portion of the novel. ... Told separately, these memories would still be important, however, by interlacing the developing plot, with the previously occurred events, Miller makes these memories twice as suspenseful and twice as climactic as they ever could have been standing alone. ... Finally, in an awakening unparalleled in the rest of the work, Biff erupts, standing up and accepting that both he and his father are "a dime a dozen-, and that his entire family is living in a surrealistic dream world. ... Through...

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