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What Is The Difference Between Biff And Willy's Relationship
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The relationship between a father and his son, are supposed to be one of the strongest relationships there is. The father is a role model and provides for his son the best he can, while the son helps the family, and makes his parents proud. Usually, this is not the case, nowadays, the son tends to be lazy, while the father stresses himself out. Or, the father leaves the family, which forces the mother to step up to provide income, making the son the "man" of the family. My relationship with my father shares many similarities, but also many differences with the relationship of Biff and his father, Willy. I do believe however, that the relationship between my father and myself, is a much better relationship than Biff and Willy's. In many ways my father is similar to Willy, except for the whole wanting to kill himself part. Willy was always on road and worked almost all day, well my father is the same way, sometimes he even leaves before I get up and returns after I go to bed. In both cases, the father provides the income for the family.
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Most of the time it is over stupid stuff, like one of us trying to upset the other, which usually works. I believe that both my father and Willy wanted Biff and I to carry out the dreams they had, but never had the chance to do themselves. Biff played football, which he loved, and his father was upset when Biff was unable to play in college. For me, it was wrestling, my father forced me to wrestle when I was younger, I did well, but hated it. He loved wrestling and my older brother wrestled before me, so I guess my brother wanted me to wrestle as well. I'm not sure if he knew, whether or not I liked wrestling, but he never really asked either. The day I decided to stop, he was disappointed, but he was understanding and respected my

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