How can he find himself on a farm? Is that a life? A farmhand? When he was young, I thought, well, a young man, it’s good for him to tramp around, take a lot of different jobs. But it’s more than ten years now and he has yet to make thirty-five dollars a week
Willy
Linda
I think he's still lost.
Willy criticizes Biff because he feels his son is wasting his life working on a farm in Texas
Biff
I am so lazy. What am I doing, playing around with horses, twenty-eight dollars a week!? I'm thirty-four years old, I need to make my future. I was wasting my life!
(Willy's imagination)
He threw me out of this house, remember that. I know he’s a fake and he doesn’t like anybody around who knows! I’ll chip in from now on. He’ll settle for half my pay check. He’ll be all right. I’m going to bed!
What happened to the love you had for him?
Happy
Linda
Biff
Biff perceives the gap between Willy's projected persona and his actual life, viewing him with pity rather than love, and resents his lofty expectations that Willy cannot fulfill.