Thus, he must pass on to them not only love but the doomed dream that he has.Biff and Happy represent the third generation in this play. While he wants to love and “doright” by his sons, he is driven to use them as heirs to the kingdom that he believes mustbe built. Willy, the second generation, is his father’s victim. But while Willy’sfather achieved and was creative, he left behind him a wife, a young son who is nowfatherless, and an older son who was driven to find success and letting nothing get in hisway. The first generation in this play, Willy’sfather, was forced in order to make a living, to break up the family. Miller’s depiction of the Loman family is an example which shows that America islargely a second and third generation country. His family’s survival depended on hissuccess. Willy had a lot riding on him being successful. This preoccupation is the main cause of Willy’s mentalstress. Materialism in Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller uses Death of a Salesman to expose America’s preoccupation withmaterialism after World War II.
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