is whole life was a fake. “You fake! You phony little fake! You fake! Overcome, Biff turns quickly and weeping fully goes out with his suitcase. Willy is left on the floor on his knees”(p.121) Biff, Willy’s main pride, left him. Biff never trusted him again. Willy’s guilt of lying to his loving son stays in his mind-leaving Biff to hate his father. Whatever relationship they had before what shattered into millions of pieces. It killed Willy that his once loving son grew to hate him as much as he did. “Will you stop mending stockings? At least while I’m in the house. It gets me nervous please! (p.75) Seeing his wife Linda mending stockings leads him to a great deal of guilt. The woman with whom he was cheating with was constantly given gifts of stockings from Willy. It reminds him of how he should have given the new stockings to his loyal wife. The feeling of guilt and losing the trust of his son leaves him with great pain and the many attempts of suicide.As the play ends, we begin so see more clearly towards Willy’s flashbacks. His suicide attempts become stronger and the painfulness of his life turns to sadness. “I was looking for a fuse down in the cell and behind the fuse box-it happened to fall out-a length of a rubber pipe-just short.” (p.59) Linda, suspicious of her husband wanting to kill himself, finds a hidden rubber pipe connected to the gas line of the water heater. Linda, scared, tried to take the pipe away every day but always found herself putting it back thinking she was betraying her husband. She began to confide in her sons with what she should do, but finds them thinking the opposite. “Pop I’m nothing! I’m nothing pop! Can’t you understand that? There’s no spite in it anymore. I’m just what I am that’s all!” (p.133) Biff begins to find his father unbearable. He always relied on Biff to come home and surprise him with g...
