![]() Willy thinks Charley is ignorant because he is not well liked. Charley is an honest man who warns Willy about the consequences of his boys’ behavior: stealing supplies from construction sites, etc. Charley offers Willy a job, but Willy is too proud to take it. When Willy loses his salary, Charley loans him money every week so that Linda won’t know what’s happened. Although Willy is condescending to him, Charley is willing to help Willy through a rough spot. Charley is a businessman who has lived next door to Willy for a long time. He insists on fighting his way through the business world as a way to honor Willy, even though he may never go further than his current position as an assistant’s assistant.Ĭharley: Willy’s neighbor and long-time friend. He has his own apartment, car, and plenty of women, and yet he is still unhappy. Hap is a salesman who seduces the fiancees of store executives and takes bribes from manufacturers. Although Hap grows up to become more financially successful than his older brother, his father still focuses his attention only on Biff. As an adult, Willy and Linda seem to brush him off in much the same way they did when he was younger. Growing up in Biff’s shadow, Happy was always vying for Willy’s attention, but never really got it. ![]() Happy was often ignored by his parents while growing up. Biff does not want to end up like his father. As an adult, Biff drifted from job to job, a failure in Willy’s eyes after Biff comes home and ruins another opportunity at success, he realizes that his life has been a lie he no longer wants to try to become something he‘s not. This crushed Biff’s image of his father Willy’s successful life has been only been a lie. When Biff went to Boston to tell his father that he wasn’t graduating, and ask him to talk to his Math teacher, he found Willy with another woman. Being well liked wasn’t enough to help Biff graduate from high school failing his math class was the beginning of his adult failures, and his inability to hold a job. Willy ignored his petty thefts because he was a hometown hero. Biff was everything Willy wanted him to be - star athlete, popular with the girls, well liked all around. ![]() As the oldest son, Biff is the personification of all of Willy’s dreams, and as a teenager, he worshipped his father. Linda tries to protect Willy from himself, but her efforts are in vain.īiff Loman: Willy’s oldest son. ![]() She protects him when Biff fights with him, defends him to her sons who think he’s going crazy, and she respects him enough to pretend she doesn’t know that he’s trying to kill himself and that he’s lost his salary. If anything, she loves him more because of it. She realizes that Willy is just an ordinary man, but she doesn’t fault him for it. She sees what her husband is going through, and she supports him and loves him despite his many failures and weakness. Linda Loman: Willy’s wife, mother of Biff, and Happy. He decides that the best thing he can do for his family is to award them the money from his life insurance policy by killing himself. His sons are mediocre bums he’s no longer able to provide for his family no one knows him anymore, and he feels like a failure. As Willy grows older and realizes that he has failed to meet his own expectations as a salesman, his life seems wasted. Although Willy encouraged their success, he neglected to instill any sense of integrity or morality in the boys, and it leads to their ultimate failure in his eyes. Willy believes that success comes from being well liked, and he instilled this belief in his sons, Biff and Happy, who were his brightest hopes in life. His older brother, Ben, who also left when Willy was young, and made a fortune in the diamond mines of Africa when he was only 21 years old, is another measuring stick for Willy. Willy Loman is a traveling salesman who grew up inspired by the success of his craftsman/salesman father who left his family for Alaska.
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