Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Biff and Happy
I think that, although the book portrays Happy as the more successful, ambitious office workers, Biff is the happy one. It seems that even though he is criticized by his father, Willy, for being lazy, that he does what he pleases, and he somewhat enjoys not having a steady job. He doesn't mind it, and I feel like he is in control of his life. I know that he may not be successful, but I do think that he is happy, or at least happier than his brother, Happy (a lot of happies). Biff is still upset about his current state, and his lack of success in the business world, but I think that their are times where he genuinly happy, and I don't think his brother, Happy, is ever happy. Happy, on the other hand is a guy who always wants more, and will never achieve this goal, or dream that he has. He will always have a dream off in the distance. I think that Happy is insecure, and down right miserable in his life. Biff wanted to go out to the West, and take it easy, but happy was so wrapped in work, that he couldn't. Happy also takes bribes, and has sex with his bosses wives, just to get ahead in the business world. He has done very bad things, and I think that Happy knows that has done bad things, and feels guilty, but he thinks that is what he has to do to succeed in the materialistic society. I think that they are not reliable characters though because I don't want to know what's going to happen next, especially to Biff. Biff could find a job that maybe is dangerous and he gets killed off, or something like that, I don't know. Although Happy has a nice job, I think he has the potential to go crazy. All of the bad things that he has done, will eventually catch up too him, and it will all blow up in his face. I think both characters are said, miserable people, I just think that Biff is a little happier, and has a little bit more confidence than Happy. Happy is insecure, so he sleeps with multiple women to make him feel better about himself.
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Nice Blog priest. I agree with you about your blog but i said that both of the characters, from my perspective, are unhappy. Although Happy is successful and Biff does what he pleases to me they both seem unhappy and want a new lifestyle. But nice job broseph.
I agree that Happy has done things that he may not be proud of, but he knows he needs to do some of those things to get ahead in the "materialistic" society. I also agree that they are not very reliable characters and both are unhappy with their lives. Good job!!
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