Innocence in 'Death of a Salesman'
In Death of a Salesman, innocence focus mainly on one child. That child is Biff Loman. He is a bright and popular kid in high school but failed math in university. With the help of his father, Willy, he wanted to try again. He was innocent and only until he saw his dad with another woman he realized his father wasn’t who he really was. Before this incident, Biff looked up to his father and wanted to be just like him when he grew up. He admired his father like any other son would. And just like any other son, he thought his father was perfect and had no faults. But in true sense, no father is like that. Biff was taught so much from his father and so when Biff failed his math’s test and could not graduate he wanted to try again. He wanted the person he believed in the most to help, his father. But his father wasn’t amazing as Biff thought he was. He caught his father sleeping with another woman and the image of his perfect father vanished. With that broken innocence, Biff lost all hope from graduating and slipped into a massive slump which he could not get up from him. He also lost all trust for his father as one would when their innocence is broken.
A father's relationship with his son is one of the most valuable relationship in a family. The son looks up to his father more than his mother meaning that the father needs to be a good role-model for the son to follow. Biff and Happy are like any other son. But his father isn't a good role-model. He is a father that bought his son into a world of deception and lies. Biff is not satisifed with this and says," Sometimes I wish my father would let go of the past". He does not anymore, want to live the life his father had laid out for him. Happy goes along with this life but Biff realises this life is wrong and he makes his own journey to follow.
