The thirty-four year old son of Willy Loman, Biff was a star high school athlete with a scholarship to UVA, but he did not attend college after failing his high school math course and not attending summer school. He did this primarily out of spite after finding his father having an affair with a woman in Boston. Since then, Biff has been a continual failure, stealing from every job he has had and even spending time in jail. Despite his failures and anger towards his father, Biff still has great concern for what his father thinks of him, and the conflict between the two characters drives the narrative of the play.
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