If we look at New York City, it is a fast paced, very stressful and very socially ranked area. Everyone is trying to reach the top of the "food chain" in a way. Same thing goes with all of the books that we have read so far. All the books we have read so far. New York being the City that it is puts a lot of different stresses on people and pressures to perform. In the Death of a Salesman, Biff views the city on by the physical advantages that it attribute to his success as a whole. The place where Biff succeeded the most was on the football field. Yes, he could have played at a higher level, but by being the quarterback and everything, he felt successful in a way. By Biff being successful, he brings happiness to Willy. There is one point during the book, where Willy is hallucinating that Biff is playing in this huge game and he is telling all his imaginary friends about it. The happiness not only came with the success of Biff, but it came with the idea that it was Willy's son that was successful, therefore when people looked at Biff they could attribute his success to Willy. All in all the reason why Biff doesn't find himself comfortable in the city is because he likes to be free. In other words he find himself almost enclosed in the city and he cannot use his physical advantages like on the football field and translate them to real life. The reason why Biff feels that they don't belong in the city is because he feels like he has some of the same characteristics as his father. Therefore, like Willy, Biff is frustrated because he feels that Willy can't use his physical advantages in the real world like himself. .
For the Loman's, it is very difficult for them to fit in to the city as a whole. They try to do what they think is the obvious instead of conforming to what the city expects out of them. The Loman's are located in an area where apartments solely surround them. In the first Act, when Willy comes out from his attempted trip, he complains about the way the buildings are located.