Biff the Hero? In Arthur Miller’s, dramatic play, Death of a Salesman the Loman family presents its self as being the perfect nuclear family as opposed to their dysfunctional nature. Even though Miller portrays Willy Loman as the main character of the story, his lack of praise worthy traits make it necessary for another to be the hero. This other character comes in the form of Willy’s son, Biff Loman, who may not …showed first 75 words of 1715 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1715 total…Biff, having completed his search for self-identity in the face of the odds which had driven his father crazy, emerges as the true protagonist of this play" (Sharma 79). Bibliography Works Cited Boruch, Marianne. LitR. Summer, 1981, pp. 548 Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Penguin Books, 1998, New York, pp. 88, 91, 105, 111 Onger, Leonard. AmericanWriters. Vol. 3, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, pp. 154 Sharma, P. P., "Search for Self-Identity in ‘Death of a Salesman’," Literary Criterion. Vol. 11, No. 2, Summer, 1974, p. 77, 79