In the play the play “Death of a Salesman” by Arthur Miller, the protagonist Willy Loman lives a great majority of his life in vain. In the waning pages of the play and his life, his jealous of Charley becomes clear. He spent a lifetime filling himself and his children full of hot air, and as a result none of them knew how to handle life. Biff and Happy were considered to be failures, but Charley’s son, Bernard, grew to be acclaimed on an national level after a childhood of degrading. Willy’s envy becomes apparent on page 92, where he says to Bernard, “What -- what’s the secret? How -- how did you do it? Why didn't he ever catch on?” in reference to Biff. The acclaim in Bernard’s family is not exclusive to him, his father is a self made, self