Biff Loman by Sherry

              The Sower. 1880

             by Vincent Van Gogh

Biff Loman, a victim under Willy (his father) 's self-complacence imagination. He's the only one, who was surrounded for 34 years under lies that Willy has tormented him with, that has the gut to face the truth of his own life. Everyone lives among the kingdom of lies; but Biff dares to break down the castle and start a new one. He's a practical man who cannot be fed up with unrealistic fancies of life.
However no one backs him. Down there inside their conscience they're too used to this kind of life that some of them are not aware of how wrong they're doing. And even if they're aware, they've made themselves numb, paralyzed so that they have the excuses not to confront to it.
This may leads us to think, as we grow older, this society becomes much more hypocrite than we think. If any voice of justice comes out, it is considered "abnormal", because it's against everything else! But it is whom they considered themselves normal are the ones who are blinded. This is quite an appropriate illustration of Biff being the one who is self-aware of whom he is and the rest are either blinded or simply admits no fault.
Biff Loman is not only a victim under Willy's imagination; he's also a victim being Willy's son. As a child he steals, and this repeated act was but encouraged by his father! He could have been a good son to Willy, but Willy ruined him. He set up sort of standards to Biff, he sees Biff with his idealized vision, and not taking what Biff is actually. Therefore when Biff feels tormented toward him and tried to find his own way (which obviously strikes against Willy's dream); Willy disapproves him the more.
Then what is admirable to us is Biff's courage. He challenges Willy, He challenges everyone else, and he speaks the truth, for him and for Willy. He has been lost; he refused to grow up (Why? He knew of Willy's affair which led him to self-giving-up); but he' changed. Let's quote from what Ben said, "He'll walk out of the jungle." Everyone else is lost in what they see a mystical and magnificent jungle in search for that tiny little gold. Biff was one of them' but he was tired, tired of this blindedly, aimless search of something he didn't even really cared, and he did this only because everybody stuck his head with ideas that doing this would be good! No, he finally awakes, and he struggles to walk out of this favorite jungle of everybody else, because he knew that it was never his favorite one.
Biff is a man whom we can consider a great man, because we have presence a man who was willing to face himself in a world full of cowards.
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