• Blog – What do you make of Biff and Happy? Are they reliable characters? Are they happy?
Biff and Happy to me are not reliable characters. Biff, who is Willies older son cannot hold a steady job. “Shipping clerk, salesman, business of one kind or another. And it’s measly a manner of existence.” (Pg. 22) If someone cannot hold a job, they would not be one I would trust. Happy, cannot be trusted either. Happy has an obsession for power. All he wants to do is be promoted and they only way for that to happen is if the merchandise manager leaves or dies. “All I can do now is wait for the merchandise manager to die. And suppose I get to be merchandise manager?” (Pg. 23) Although Biff and Happy seem like they are having a good time talking to each other, they really are unhappy with their lives. Biff is tired of working for others and wants to own his own ranch and work on it with Happy. Happy likes material things, and everything he has wanted he already has. However, he also is unhappy with his current life. He is worried about obtaining more money and material goods and that he would then be to busy to enjoy what he has.
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