Conflict -Willy And Biff Flashcards
How can he find…
Himself on a farm? Is that a life? … He has yet to make thirsty five dollars a week!”
Willy struggles to accept what Biff wants to do, and that Willy is focused on earning money and being a big success unlike Biff- to Willy’s frustration. They don’t share the same goals and dreams.
I’ll get him…
A job selling. He could be big in no time.”
Sees being a salesman as only way to success, his view is that achieving AD is through popularity and wealth, contrasting with Biff
Bernard: his life ended…
After that Ebbets field game”
Shows us how the relationship deteriorated after the emergence of the affair and how Willy ignored that it had happened.
Be liked…
And you will never want.” Shows bad role model for his sons, wrong ideas of success and how to obtain it. Shows he lives in a dream and is out of touch with reality, huge driving force of conflict
We never told…
The truth for ten minutes in this house!”
Biff has realised his father has been living in a dream, the conflict is that Willy doesn’t realise it…
Pop, I’m…
I am not…
A dime a dozen and so are you!”
A dime a dozen! I am Willy Loman!”
Shows extent of his delusion. Biff knows the truth but Willy can’t accept it, not understanding that his obsession with success and the AD has caused the family grief and his life.
Linda: You shouldn’t..
..have criticised him… You mustn’t lose your temper with him’
Establishes conflict from beginning before we even encounter Biff, that Willy is highly critical of him.
