Willy Jr. (Happy)

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  In the Death of a Salesman the two brothers Happy and Biff, can be seen as two almost polar opposites in some cases. Biff has voiced his distaste for sales jobs and can prove it as he quits his previous salesman job and tries to branch out into a different path to success. Happy has stated towards the beginning of the play about how he is also not content with his current job and even agrees with Biff's ideas of working on a ranch. However despite this discontent Happy still remains dedicated to the salesman life pledging to even carry out his father's dreams. Why is that? What has possibly influenced Happy to still stay committed to Willy's delusional dreams and arrogant ideas. It seems that the sort of neglect that Happy could have felt growing up has led him to idolize his father more. With Willy paying more attention to Biff, it leads to Happy becoming more dedicated to try and impress Willy. Ironically this is also the same thing that had happened to Willy and his father. With Willy's father leaving him at an early age, it leads to Willy becoming the character we know him as. The delusional, need to be well liked, father who tries to implant these same ideas to his kids. With this mentality that Happy has developed, in trying to be well liked and impressive to his father, he is unable to steer away from his father's career path as Willy has taught and shown Happy to be a likeable salesman and a salesman only. 

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