Happy: I told you he wouldn’t like it. Biff: Well I’m bringing it back Willy: Sure, he’s gotta practice with a regulation ball, doesn’t he? Coach’ll probably congratulate you on your initiative (1245). Willy emphasizes the idea that it is okay to break the rules to get ahead. He also makes his kids believe that the rules don’t pertain to them. This type of advice leads to future issues such as Biff stealing in order to achieve his desired career. It is one of the main reasons for Biff’s failures. Although this scene can be perceived as a moment of content for the Lowman family, it foreshadows many future issues within the play. The theme, denial of failure, transfers from father to son. Although it is unclear whether Willy’s illness accounts …show more content…
I see it like a diamond, shining in the dark, hard and rough, that I can pick up and touch in my hand. Not like—like an appointment! This would not be another damned fool appointment, Ben, and it changes all the aspects. Because he thinks I’m nothing, see, and so he spites me. But the funeral— (Straightening up) Ben, that funeral will be massive! They’ll come up from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old timers with the strange license plates—that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized—I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey—I am known, Ben, and he’ll see it with his eyes once and for all. He’ll see what I am, Ben! He’s in for a shock that boy! (1295) All Willy wishes for is to end as a success. He wants to gain back attention from his peers but most importantly, from his son. This is the first scene in which Willy seeks approval from his son instead of the other way around. His only desire does not happen unfortunately as little-to-no people show up to his funeral. Willy’s life and death are deemed unsuccessful by his own standards. He wished to be known around the world, but he will only be