

There’s one thing about Biff–he’s not lazy. In the greatest country in the world a young man with such–personal attractiveness, gets lost.

These clues begin innocently, as in Willy’s self-contradiction on page TBD: Small clues peppered throughout Act One however tell us Willy no longer listens to himself, nor to anyone else, and has completely severed his connection with reality. In the initial scenes, Willy comes across as absent-minded and slightly bumbling, but relatively stable.

Miller does not make the reader immediately aware of Willy Loman’s mental and emotional frailty.
