ut a promising reality to Happy and his Dad. Willy decides, That is a one-million-dollar idea. (p 1263) The only problem lies with a man named Oliver. Biff knew him years before and now Olivers expected to remember him and give him start and an endorsement with he and Happys Loman Brothers project. Inevitably, Oliver hardly remembers Biff and the plan fails. On the same day, Willy loses his job. He goes to meet his boys for a dinner to celebrate. He previously decided he wanted to hear some good news to tell Linda, regardless of the facts. Biff tries desperately to come clean with his father and tell him the truth about the rejection he took from Oliver. Unfortunately, Willy refuses to hear it and Happy learned the same method of dodging reality from his Dad. In the heated fight between Biff and Willy toward the climax of the play, Biff hauls out the rubber tubing he found in the cellar that he suspected his Dad wanted to use for his own hanging. Willy tries to weasel away from this real situation as well.Willy-What is that?Biff-You know goddam well what it is.Willy-I never saw that before. (p 1297)Willy spends more time then not contradicting his words. The advice he gives his sons, he hardly lives by. The example he strives to set for his boys appalls a hard-working laborer. Yet after all these examples of his hypocritical actions and words, Willy asks, Why am I always being contradicted?Linda falls right into the rut of lying as well. She backs up and encourages Willys far-fetched dreams and delusions. In fact, she trusts him a little too much. Her fear of not being a proper wife keeps her from thinking logically.Biff talked to his mother about his unfortunate discovery of the rubber hose earlier and she seemed genuinely concerned. Yet when he confronts Willy about the matter, Linda wants to dismiss the topic as if they should all deny the problem exists. Linda does everything in her power to protect Willys belief...
