I’ve always made a point of not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here I know that all I’ve done is to waste my life.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. Biff seems happy when he is working outdoors on a Texas ranch. But when he arrives back to New York his father’s wish that he pursue material success in the business world makes him feel he is wasting his life. A disilliusioned Biff is torn between his father’s and his own competing dreams.