Death Of A Salesman Compare And Contrast Bernard And Willy

Unfortunately, for Willie, Biff is not entirely sure of the purchase he makes, evidenced by the dissatisfaction that Biff expresses with “what it takes to build a future” as a businessperson. When Biff converses with Happy about the career he wants, the reader discovers that Biff seeks a future that involves the great outdoors, not the confined existence of a businessperson. Instead of voicing his desires to his father, Biff keeps these thoughts to

The main reason for the pair’s performance in high school is their upbringing. Biff comes from a household which has placed popularity and social status as top priority. Biff takes his father’s insight of being well liked to get far in life and lives his life accordingly. Willy never forces Biff to work on academics because he doesn’t want him ending up being a nerd like Bernard:

The Puritans viewed themselves as God's special people. Nowhere do the dangers of this assumption become clearer than in the Puritans' treatment of the Native Americans. Since the Puritans considered themselves God's chosen people, they concluded that they had the right to take the land from the heathen Indians. The American Indians were the "new Canaanites" in America's "Promised Land." The fruit of Puritan theology was brutal. They saw their mission as convert these "Canaanites" to Christianity; failing that, it was acceptable to slaughter them in the name of Christ. There were many conflicts between settlers and natives throughout the colonial period. Religion played a very important role in both Puritan and Native American society, though

Success was a key idea throughout the play as the main character Willy raised his sons Biff and happy with the false idea that if you “start big, you’ll end big” (page 51). Biff learnt the hard way that this was not the case at all because when he was younger, he was once a star high school athlete with a scholarship to UVA. Reality set in shortly after when Biff discovered the affair between Willy and the woman, from this moment onward, Biff has been a continual failure, he refused to attend summer school to make up for a flunked math class, stealing at every job and even spending time in jail. The truth about the affair has caused Biff to despise Willy’s ambitions and high hopes for his future, he abandons Willy’s dream for him and moves out the country to do what he knew he was meant to do, work with his hands. Biffs actions make it clear that the ‘American dream’ is not every man’s dream. Instead of looking for money and success, he wants a more simplistic life, one that he’s seen and loved for he truly is without his father’s burdens shadowing over him. On the other hand we have Bernard who is now an important and successful lawyer, although he was super nerdy throughout his school years he was always looking out for Biff, helping him with his study and homework. Willy believes that “personality always wins the day” (page 51) which is the reason why Willy believed that Bernard would never be a true success in the business world, due his lack of spirit and presence. Bernard proves himself to be far more successful than Willy had ever imagined, and through his success he also shows that Willy’s principles were irrelevant in reality. Through the contrasting characterisation of Bernard and Biff the readers come to understand that success is a result of hard work and not

     Benard, son of Charley, is the bookworm neighbor and childhood friend of Biff whose caring nature is shown through out the play. Never deviating from his helping sprit, Benard is always there to help out Biff and Willy whenever possible. In high school, Benard constantly reminds Biff that he needs to study with him so he doesn’t fail math and not graduate high school. “Biff, where are you? You’re supposed to study with me today. He’s gotta study, Uncle Willy. He’s got Regents next week,” Benard states (1807). Here Benard is looking out for the well being of Biff. Even when everyone thinks he is being a nuisance, Benard still shows his helping hand and acting in accordance with his nature. Even as years past, Benard never loses track of what his nature is. All his studying and hard work lands him a high position as an attorney and he never let anyone’s criticisms stop him from being successful. Also, Willy comes to see Charley at his office with surprise to see Benard is there visiting his father. Benard and Willy get into a serious conversation discussing what happened to Biff after high school. Here Benard tells Willy how much he loves Biff and cares for him even though he takes advantage of him. “Well, just that when he came back – I’ll never forget this, it always mystifies me. Because I’d thought so well of Biff, even though he’d always taken advantage of me. I loved him, Willy, y’know? And he came back after that

In society, there are often people who have strong leadership qualities and understand what it means to be a good leader. Other times, there are people who have strong qualities to lead, but they do not understand how to be a good leader and create a safe and comfortable environment for those following them. In Lord of the Flies by William Golding, the characters of Ralph and Jack arise as two different leaders who have strong characteristics and they both seek power on the island. The boys become leaders in their own ways, creating individual environments that prioritize different things all while trying to work towards their rescue to get off the island.

Willy’s biggest issue with his son is that he let him down by not being any more successful than him. He feels like Biff is failing on purpose just to make him look bad. Although, he has no decent job and is single; Biff has become disoriented about life. Earlier in the play Biff tells Happy, “I tell ya Hap, I don't know what the future is. I don't know - what I'm supposed to want” (Miller266). Biff once looked up to his father as a role model, but lost all faith in him once finding out that he was having an affair. Ever since he has rejected Willy’s commitment of being a husband and also a father. To add to his ruins are Willy’s ideas of how Biff should get ahead in life. Willy taught Biff that popularity was the right way to get to the top, rather than hard-work and dedication. Trying to live by his dad’s standards caused Biff to fail high school and become unable to put forth the effort to become

The relationship between Willy and Biff is complicated. Actually, Biff is everything for Willy. He doesn’t do well as a salesman anymore, so this situation makes him depressed but at least there is Biff. So Willy believes that Biff will reach the success and his dreams will become true. That makes him want Biff to take some responsibility, in other words this is a big pressure on Biff. “How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? In the beginning, when he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But it’s more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week!” says Willy and then Linda says “He is finding himself Willy.” Then Willy answers again “Not finding yourself at the age of thirty-four is a disgrace!” This shows how Willy mad at him because he thinks they couldn’t reach their dreams because of Biff. Willy says “Sure. Certain men just don’t get started till later in life. Like Thomas Edison, I think. Or B.F. Goodrich. One of them was deaf. I’ll put my money

While Biff is in some ways desperate to impress his father, he is also conscious about the fact that Willy has failed his attempt to be successful in his career. He considers his dad’s dreams materialistic and unreachable. As a matter of fact, in the Requiem, even after his father’s death, Biff says: “He had the wrong dreams. All, all wrong.” Unlike Happy and Willy, Biff is self-aware and values facts; Willy never was a successful salesman and he never wanted to face the truth. On the other hand, Biff is conscious about his failures and the weaknesses of his personality. During an argument with his father, Biff admits that his dad made him “so arrogant as a boy” that now he just can’t handle taking

The Fences written by August Wilson and Death of a Salesman was written by Arthur Miller are two plays that can be considered different in terms of their plot. Both plays have two very different cultural backgrounds. The background affects each protagonist therefore differently. However, there are also similarities beyond the plot. Despite the different backgrounds of each protagonist or main characters, they are both trying to achieve their dreams. They both fail ironically in similar ways .Willy Loman in the death of a salesman and Troy Maxson are both hardworking men trying very hard to help their families . They strive very hard to be successful, yet they die in the end feeling they did not earn the respect they deserved.

Willy’s perseverance to direct Biff into success has resulted to Biff’s desperate acts to earn praise from his father. However, Biff’s dishonest acts of stealing are often justified by Willy through disregard and excuse, even expressing that the “Coach will probably congratulate [Biff] for [his] initiative”. Instead of correcting his mistakes, Willy continuously expresses his belief of Biff’s predetermined success as a result of being attractive and well-liked. These acts effectively exemplifies Biff’s adherence to self-deception as he imagines himself as an important figure in other people’s lives. It can be seen that his belief of being destined for success prevents him from allowing himself recognize the destruction it brings. As a result, Biff has allowed how Willy views him become how he perceives himself. This self-deception has not only affected the actions in his childhood but as well as his decisions when finding his role in the workplace. As stated above, Willy’s consistent beliefs of his son’s predestined success results to Biff’s immense confidence in himself. However, this confidence have provided him a false perception of himself as he struggle to keep a stable job and even faces imprisonment. It can be seen that Biff’s lack of self-perception and compliance to ideals of Willy has only allowed him to restrain and prevent him from recognizing the difference between illusion and reality resulting in the lack of his

Willy’s unreasonable expectations of Biff creates a hostile relationship between Biff and Willy. Ever since Biff was in highschool, Willy always expected Biff to be very successful without instilling the tools

In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, both Macbeth and Lady Macbeth contributed to the murder of King Duncan and the murders that follow. Macbeth is known for his bravery and courage as a soldier on the battlefield, and as a solider he is very familiar with killing people, which we later see throughout the play. This shows that Macbeth is solely responsible for the murders he commits throughout the play. Although, Macbeth may seem totally responsible for these murders, other characters actions in the play including Lady Macbeth, the witches, and himself led Macbeth to his downfall.

Despite his son’s popularity in high school, Biff grows up to be a drifter and a ranch-hand. Willy’s own career falters as his sales ability flat-lines. When he tries to use “personality” to ask his boss for a raise, he gets fired instead. Willy’s “definition” of the American Dream is all wrong, due to the way his own sons turned out to be.

The Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller. A book about an old man whose occupation is a salesman. The story takes place in Brooklyn Manhattan, in a nice quite neighborhood and the main protagonists is named Willy Loman. Willy Loman main goal in life was to succeed and make a name for himself but since he didn’t achieve it, he passed on that dream to his two sons. From Willy Loman point of view his second son did make a named out of himself but for his first son, that dream of success didn’t happened. Biff Loman is his name. The Long Journey into Night written by Eugene O’Neill. A book about a family whose learning or trying to deal with these obstacles they have in they’re life. Theirs a certain character in that book whose named