Analysis Of Childish Characters In Arthur Miller's 'Death Of A Salesman'

The Kids Will be Fine Childhood is a strange and wonderful time of ignorance and imagination where the floor can be lava, a sandbox can be a construction zone, and summers are filled with playing in the sun. Among these fun times there is a fundamental formation happening in our brain creating our personalities; peers and parents contribute greatly to this. Writers often introduce a childish character who is shown to change from a hardship they face. In American works such as The Death of a Salesman, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Scarlet letter, and The Body children, or childish characters, are introduced to bring light to their ever changing personalities and the forces and events that shaped them. In Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman, Biff, the protagonists son, creates his personality off of his father’s own hopes and dreams for his sons. “Biff Loman is lost. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such—personal attractiveness, gets lost. And such a hard worker.”(Act I). Willie Loman
Willie tries to force his beliefs onto Biff, and Biff, in response, leaves his house. Biffs personality changes because he is out in the real world doing what he loves, no listening to his father who is often yelling about to be a better person. Biff realizes his own dream and follows it against his father’s hopes. Biff becomes a more independent individual because of Willies unintentional push out of the nest. Biff also shown no remorse after his father’s suicide. “Biff: He had the wrong dreams, All wrong. Happy: Don’t say that! Biff: He never knew who he was”(Act II). This quote comes after Willies suicide. Biff blames Willie and believes that his occupation, a sales man, drove him to suicide to provide money. Biff thinks that Willie would have been happier working a labor job, a dream of his own. Biff and Huck were both shaped by their fathers to become slightly more calloused to the