Analysis of Willy Loman’s Relationship with His Children

In the play, “Death of a Salesman,” Willy Loman experiences both the positive and the negative aspects of bipolar disorder: one moment he is upbeat and pleased, and the following he is furious and swearing at his children. Their connections are clearly difficult ones. Willy predictably has the more profound commitment, reverence, and near-hero worship for his child Biff; who, likewise, has an incredible love for his dad. The two are preoccupied with one another, leading them to overlook the other child, Happy, who always attempts to gloat about himself so as to make up for the absence of anybody to do it for him. However, things change for the worse after Biff finds the dad he worships was not all he had believed him to be. Thereafter, their family dynamic is never the same, as Willy keeps on trusting that Biff will succeed, uninformed, maybe deliberately, with the goal that his child is falling out of spite, realizing that all his dad's expectations are laying on his shoulders. Willy's associations with his two children are provisional, best case scenario, yet Happy and Biff are halfway to fault for this declining winding as their relationship is similarly as unpredictable.

Willy Loman recalls scenes from years past, especially the purer moments when his two children were as yet youthful and loaded with agreement. Willy's recollections center around Biff; Biff's struggles with progress, Biff's abilities, Biff's prominence in Willy’s life. Happy is dependably out of sight, with no one to talk to. In any case, he never is. Happy is in every case second to Biff, notwithstanding when he had accomplished something a parent could be pleased with, similar to when he constantly guarantees, 'I’m losing weight, you notice, Pop’’. In light of the fact that Willy gives practically no consideration to Happy, their relationship becomes particularly weak over the course of the play. Happy apparently thinks about his dad as a grown-up, which can be seen when he picks the organization of females over the calming of his dad's spirit. This stressed dynamic may have harmed Willy to a degree, however Happy is out of sight.

It is Biff who matters most to Willy, and their relationship is especially strange, and its harmed state is owed altogether to one single transgression. Willy has a strained and troublesome association with his senior child because he feels that Biff has let him down by not being any more successful in life than Willy himself has been. Biff has no proper job, is not married, and is unable to settle down to anything. Willy seems to feel that Biff has failed on purpose, just to spite his father: 'You don't want to be anything, is that what's behind it?,' he accuses Biff during their confrontation in the restaurant. What Willy does not understand is that Biff has become very confused about life. As Biff tells his brother early on in the play: “I tell ya Hap, I don't know what the future is. I don't know - what I'm supposed to want. ” Biff, therefore, has no direction at all - he doesn't know what he should be aiming’’.

Willy's relationship with his younger son, Happy is not as fraught as his relationship with Biff, but it is still unsatisfactory. Although, on the surface, Happy appears more settled than Biff, he has not reached an acceptable level of success. He is in a low-paid job, living on rent, and, like Biff, he has not settled down and gotten married, but continues to run around with various women. He vies for his father's attention, but Willy is always more focused on Biff, his all-time favourite son, on whom he seems to have pinned all his hopes. Yet it is Happy that Willy ends up influencing the most; he shares his father's delusions about gaining success and wealth, whereas Biff is able to see through them.

Throughout the play, it is reasonable to state that the connection between Willy Loman and his children is a perplexing one. Biff was the favored child of Willy, while Happy was more like his dad than Biff. Happy could see no wrong in Willy all throughout his life, and promised to fight for his dad's fantasy, whereas the senior child, Biff could see his dad's weaknesses. Their association with their mom was something altogether different to the relationship that they had with their dad, who they needed to persistently worship. The weakening of Willy's perspective and emotional well-being assumes a key role in the decay of the connection between Willy and Biff, on which the play's inward clash is based. As the play advances, Happy's' confidence in his dad reinforces the conflict, and he is motivated by his dad's 'Fight'. Though Biff's emotions towards his dad are blended, He adores his dad, however never again esteem him; Biff trusts that it is due to the fact that his dad blamed him that Biff is at an impasse in his work, without any prospects for a better future, and discovers it very difficult to pardon him for engaging in extramarital relations. 

Willy Loman needed his kids to be 'extraordinary', this was his last expectation throughout everyday life, except any reasonable person would agree that he was anything but a decent dad. Despite the fact that his heart was in the right place, his strategy for parenting the young men must be viewed as an indication of a confounded and cheated man, Will Loman who commited a definitive penance to be all around preferred: suicide because it ended it all so as to vindicate his children who disregarded their dad.