In the drama Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy seems to have a form of Alzheimer's in old age as he repeatedly remembers previous ones moments with family and work. Willy seems to have unwittingly convinced his son Biff to be unsuccessful when Biff caught his father Willy in an affair with a client's secretary. When Biff discovered the affair, he soon decided that he would not attend summer school, putting behind his dreams of playing college football, which would soon lead to a life of failure. Although Biff resents his father from then on, Biff never tells Linda about the affair. At the beginning of the play, Willy boasts about his sales success in Boston, Massachusetts. Linda soon reminds him that his sales could barely be considered a success. Linda supports Willy in every way possible hoping to prevent him from trying to kill himself again as he has attempted to do in the past according to her. He is afraid that the disappointment of his and Biff's failures keeps him in an unstable mental state that causes him to almost constantly fall into flashbacks of his past memories when things with the family were still good. He often has flashbacks of his successful brother Ben, whereas Willy appears to be a man focused only on financial success, Willy has flashbacks and hallucinations about him often due to Willy's jealousy of his brother's success. As the show continues, Linda and Willy convince Biff to go to an old friend of his to discuss a business proposal so that Biff and Happy can begin their road to financial success. He arrives at the meeting and soon realizes that he was never a salesman and never got along well with him in the first place. B...... middle of paper ......lf when he has another hallucination of talking to his brother. Willy comes out and starts his vehicle. His family runs to the door to stop him when it was too late. Willy eventually successfully committed suicide in an accident. In conclusion, Willy's relationship with his client's secretary was a major factor in the events during the show. The affair created major problems with himself and Biff. The problems with Willy and Biff caused even more problems with the rest of the family. Biff's Willy's dreams of becoming a salesman were destroyed by his own actions. Biff didn't want to be like his father after he caught Willy cheating on him. The affair was always on their minds when they were together and caused a domino effect of problems on all of them both financially and mentally, proving that the affair was the main point that started the problems..