Wednesday, February 25, 2009

The Death of a Salesman #1

What do you make of Biff and Happy? Are they reliable characters? Are they happy?

Biff and Happy aren't very reliable characters. It is difficult to understand what they really are happy about. They are unsure about their dreams while they both which that they lived each others lives. Although they are happy to be themselves they are both looking for something different, something that they find in each other that they individually don't have at the moment.

In some ways they also quite negative and criticize themselves. Biff isn't very proud of his relationships and hates himself for trying to hard to make a relationship work. Overall I don't think that they are very happy and they don't lead balanced lives. They live in a bad home and it seems like their lives isn't easy overall. I believe that Biff and Happy are smart characters though and they will eventually fall back on track.

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