Character Flaws In "Long Days Journey Into Night" And "Death Of A Salesman"

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one can study all they want, yet will not succeed unless they are well liked. This affects their life because they keep waiting for people to realize that they are well liked, hoping that this will somehow make them millions. They go from job to job and it never happens because it was an uneducated declaration to begin with. In both plays the sons wander in and out of jobs, never holding any long enough to make a career because of each father’s false teachings. This causes tension within the family because the sons are all in their thirties and are not on any road to making a life on their own. This makes the mother feel obligated to her sons, and at the same time sorry for them because they haven’t succeeded. This makes the father feel like a failure also, even though he did not know any better than what he was telling his sons. The parents are caught between pushing the sons into the world and keeping them safe in the home. This tension causes strain amount the family ...

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to cling on to something to make his dad think he will amount to something when he gets older, just like Biff. Happy chooses to try to get his dad’s attention through something physical, like loosing weight, because he realizes that that is what Biff is doing. This also creates, not only tension between father and son, but brother to brother also.
In both plays, it is consistent that the father has the disillusionment of unrealistic dreams for one of their sons. The inspiration created by the dream, was for the son to grow up and become famous, get rich and support the family. In “Long Days Journey into Night,” Tyrone had been successful as an actor. He hoped that his son would ...

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