“Biff’s discovery that Willy has a mistress strips him of his faith in Willy and Willy’s ambitions for him”(sparknotes).He considered his father a fake and a liar. From that point on Biff no longer wanted to be like his father. Biff went to talk to Willy about failing math and caught his father with another woman. Their relationship was broken when Biff went to Boston to see his father.
Biff looked up to his father and wanted to be like him. Willy was proud of his popular football star son. The relationship of Willy and Biff was picture perfect when we see Biff in high school. The most dramatic change is in Biff and Willy’s relationship and Happy remains in second place through the play.The changes occur around the individual desires of each character. Willy’s flashbacks show why relationships are strained as well as the dreams he had for his sons. He lies to himself by exaggerating his sons’ jobs and ambitions. As adults Biff and Happy are not the successful men their father wanted and Willy will not accept who they are. Willy wanted his sons to be well liked and successful even from any early age. Relationships in Death of a Salesman The father son relationships of Willy, Biff, and Happy in Death of a Salesman change throughout the play.
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