Flaws In A Father And Son Relationship: A Study Of Willy Loman

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The Flaws in a Father and Son Relationship: A Study of Willy Loman Felix Naranjo AP Literature & Composition, Period 1 Professor Lerma May 19, 2013 Abstract A father expectation for their sons is for them to have a bright future. They expect for them to be a better person then what they are today. A successful father expects for their son to be successful as well. If he runs as a salesman or owns a company, then his son must follow the footsteps to keep the business running. All a father wants is the best for their sons; however, some fathers tend to push their sons into something they might not be interested too. Because of these high expectations, it can cause risk between their relationship and loss of interest. A Father’s Expectations…show more content…
Willy Loman, a self-deluded salesman who lives in complete denial searching for his "American Dream," finds himself in a belated mid-life crisis. He never achieved the glorious existence as a salesman he had envisioned for himself, so he places all his hopes in his two sons, Biff and Happy. But because their father has infused them with the same fundamentally wrong sense of morality and of what is important in life that has delayed his own success and happiness, the sons find themselves equally trapped and suspended in time without the ability to succeed. Miller reveals Willy’s Struggle as the perfect father, his concerns in his image as a role model, and his controllable actions that misguides the downfall in his relationship with his

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