oblems. He is so busy striving to achieve financial success and widespread popularity that he ignores the unconditional love that his family gives. He is more concerned with being well-liked among the people he gives sales pitches to. His wife, Linda, views his job solely as a source of income, she is more concerned with Willy the person than Willy the salesman. However, instead of being content with the love of his wife, Willy has an affair with a woman while he is on the road. The woman has obviously bought Willys sales pitch; she likes him, and she gives his ego a boost. But she doesnt love him. To Willy this isnt important; she likes the man that he imagines himself to be. Willy chooses this artificial relationship over a real one because it fits in with his misguided ideals. Towards the end of the play, reality begins to set in for Willy. After he is fired, he realizes that he will never live out the American Dream for himself. His hopes are crushed for a while, especially when he finds out how horribly Biffs meeting with Bill Oliver went, and he loses his mind. But, he then thinks of a way to pass his dream on to Biff. When he realizes that Biff wasnt just trying to spite him for all of those years, he returns to his old dreams. With the money from the insurance policy, Biff can surely become successful. However, in the same scene where Willy becomes assured that Biff will become something great, we see just how disillusioned Biff has become. He can see through his fathers faade, and begs him to take that phony dream and burn it before something happens. (Miller, 133) Biff realized that Willy was a fake the night that he discovered his affair. Up until that point, Biff had believed in everything Willy said. We find out that this was a turning point in Biffs life; from that moment on he didnt care about anything else. However, this disillusionment eventually allowed Biff to free himself from the unrealistic drea...
