brash ways, as being part of those whom have affluence and destitution, those whom can become great leaders in the world. Linda, Willy's wife, honourably stands by him even as he start to slowly degenerate into illusion that he cannot differentiate from reality anymore. To some extent Linda is not part of the solution but rather part of the problem with the family’s inability to face reality. Linda loves Willy to the extent of accepting her husband’s distorted views of reality and falling herself in his world of dreams and aspirations. In doing so, she is telling her sons without a word that their father’s destructive direction in life is perfectly viable. Linda also vocalises the main conflict between Biff and his father at the very beginning of the play; “You know how he admires you. I think if he finds himself, then you’ll both be happier and fight no more.”(p.15) This statement implies the level of control Willy wishes to have on his sons, particularly Biff, as well as his unrealistically high expectations towards them; “God Almighty, he’ll be great yet. A star like that, magnificent, can never really fade away.”(p.68). However, Biff being a failure ever since he dropped out of school will desperately try to achieve a better knowledge of himself instead of one filtered by his father. In the end, although the dept of Willy’s strive for success sustains a refusal to acknowledge the failure of both himself and his sons, his eldest son Biff will save himself of the alienation of the social forces that destroyed his father, while his younger brother will succumb to his father’s tantalizing dream by pledging to achieve where his father has not.Throughout his son’s adolescence Willy has unwittingly instilled in them the belief that appearances are more important than actual achievement or talent, contrasting his athletic and handsome sons with the hardworking yet unc...
