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Death of a SalemanFactually Speaking misc

s, no matter how mentally or physically dangerous they are.Happy took the example set by his father to heart. He totally backs up his fathers foolish dreams and sees no harm in stretching the truth. He literally begs Biff to cover up his failure with Oliver. In fact, before he knows how the meeting between the two gentlemen went, he goes ahead and orders lobster. Not just plain lobster either, Happy requests that they be de-clawed. Happy finds no real remorse or guilt when it comes to using women or even breaking up engagements. Hell lie right from the beginning in order to get the company of a beautiful female. On the night he and Biff are to meet their dad for dinner, Happy picks up Miss Forsythe. He magically becomes a seller of champagne and Biff transforms into a quarterback for the New York Giants. After all this constant game playing, Happy too commonly says to his father how he will soon be married.Biff, however, wishes for honesty. His whole family spends their entire time lying to each other and themselves, but Biff wants a change. He wants this change because he witnessed his fathers biggest lie in his sons eyes, an affair with a woman in Boston. With a situation as real as that, Biff could no longer dodge reality. Willy could struggle as much as he wanted to cover up his affair but Biff saw it and failed to escape his vision. From that moment on, Biff realized the lying, the hypocrisy, and the hiding that went on in his family.With every lie and dream that Willy Loman created, Happy followed, Linda encouraged, and Biff argued. Each delusion pushed Willy a step closer to his suicide. The pain passed to the reader through this play generates from knowing where the problems lie and wishing you could knock some sense into the Loman family....

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