Pop, get this now, will you? Everytime I’ve left it’s been a fight that sent me out of here. Today I realized something about myself and I tried to explain it to you and I – I think I’m just not smart enough to make any sense out of it for you. To hell with whose fault it is or anything like that.
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 2. The theme of father and son is expressed here as Biff tells Willy that his father’s expectations for him have proven a bridge too far. Willy wants to realize his own failed American Dream of material success through Biff. But it is not Biff’s dream, he cannot live up to this, and he wants out. Biff and Willy clash on Biff’s future and cannot even talk to one another at this point.