Biff Loman Character Analysis

The life one chooses to live is not necessarily a choice. At a young age parents imprint their own views and beliefs on the young moldable child whether they mean to or not. The views ones obtained when you are older are inevitably based upon the ones that their parents had expressed when they were younger. The idea of right and wrong or good and bad come from the way a child is raised and often the views that is taught to a child by there parents is not commonly excepted and creates a harder life in the future for the child. As a young man, Biff Loman struggles in life because of the bad and negative teachings from his father Willy Loman. Being raised in contrary to popular belief and being blind to right and wrong his entire life, biff could see clearly for the first time and that clarity gave him the freedom and power to let go of the past and take control of himself and

Oliver. When biff sat down and began to be honest with his brother and confess the truth of what happened to his brother Happy he realized that the life he had been living was the life that his father wanted him to live. Willy, in a rather subconscious way, was trying to live the life that he wished he had through his son Biff. When this realization had began to come upon him he told Happy the new found truth that some how he had tricked himself into thinking that he was a salesman for Mr. Oliver when he was in fact a shipping clerk “How the hell did I ever get the idea I was a salesman there? I even believed myself that I’d been a salesman for him! And then he gave me one look and I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been. We’ve been talking in a dream for fifteen years. I was a shipping clerk.” (Miller 104). Biff at this point snapped out of his trance and realized that he needed to take responsibility for himself and make his own choices and do what he wanted to do and what makes him