The climax comes when Biff gets honest and destroys Willy’s dream and Willy finally realizes that Biff loves him. Willy starts chatting with the imaginary figure of his brother and considers killing himself. Now that Willy has realized that Biff loves him, he wants to do anything he possibly can to make his son successful. Willy commits suicide. Biff rejects his father’s misguided dream, but Happy runs with it. At the conclusion of the play, it is totally clear that Willy was wrong about himself. Not that we ever thought otherwise, but practically no one comes to his funeral. Biff now realizes that his father didn’t know himself and picked the wrong path. He will certainly not follow in his father’s footsteps. Happy, on the other hand, defends his father’s misguided dreams and decides to take them on
The climax comes when Biff gets honest and destroys Willy’s dream and Willy finally realizes that Biff loves him. Willy starts chatting with the imaginary figure of his brother and considers killing himself. Now that Willy has realized that Biff loves him, he wants to do anything he possibly can to make his son successful. Willy commits suicide. Biff rejects his father’s misguided dream, but Happy runs with it. At the conclusion of the play, it is totally clear that Willy was wrong about himself. Not that we ever thought otherwise, but practically no one comes to his funeral. Biff now realizes that his father didn’t know himself and picked the wrong path. He will certainly not follow in his father’s footsteps. Happy, on the other hand, defends his father’s misguided dreams and decides to take them on