In the drama Death of a Salesman written by Arthur Miller, the main character Willy seems to have a form of Alzheimer's in his old age while remembering repetitively of the precedents of time with his family and his work. Willy appears to have unwittingly convinced his son Biff to be an underachiever when Biff caught his father Willy in an affair with a client's secretary. When Biff found out about the affair, he quickly decided that he would not attend summer school, leaving behind his dream of playing college football, which would soon lead him to a life of failure. Although from this point on Biff resents his father, Biff never tells Linda about this affair. At the beginning of the play, Willy brags about his sales success in Boston, Massachusetts. Linda soon reminds him that his sales should hardly be considered a success. Linda supports Willy in every way possible in hopes of preventing him from attempting suicide again as she says he attempted to do in the past. She is afraid that his disappointment with her and Biff's failures will keep him in an unstable mental state that almost constantly causes him to fall into flashbacks of his past memories when things with the family were still good. He often has flashbacks of his successful brother Ben, considering that Willy seems to be a man solely focused on financial success. Willy often has flashbacks and hallucinations of him due to Willy's jealousy of his brother's success. As the play continues, Linda and Willy convince Biff to go to an old friend to discuss a business proposal so that Biff and Happy can begin their path to financial success. He arrives at his meeting and quickly realizes that he was never a salesman and never got along with him to begin with. B...... middle of paper ......lf when he has another hallucination of himself talking to his brother. Willy gets out and starts his vehicle. His family runs to the door to stop him when it's too late. Willy ultimately managed to commit suicide in an accident. In conclusion, Willy's affair with his client's secretary was a major factor in the events throughout the play. The affair created major problems between him and Biff. The problems with Willy and Biff caused even more problems with the rest of the family. Willy's dreams of Biff becoming a salesman were destroyed by his own actions. Biff didn't want to be like his father after catching Willy cheating. The affair was always on their minds when they were together and caused a domino effect of problems on both of them, both financially and mentally, proving that the affair was the main point causing the problems..