Death of a Salesman

I think that I can relate, in the book Death of a Salesman, most to the character Biff. I don't think I am babied along in life quite as much as he is, but the expectations that his parents give him are similar to the expectations that I am given by my parents. I have two older brothers, both of whom are actually pretty successful. Wesley my oldest is now one of the computer programming engineers at instructure (canvas). He dropped out of college to take on this career, but it was a good choice in the end for him. My other brother is going to college and he is part of a business scholars program in order to become a great businessman. But, even though my brothers are doing well now, they weren't as much in high school. So, my family got this idea that I was always going to end up going farther than both of my brothers. This expectation has held through for my entire high school career. So, as my brothers get more successful it gets harder and harder to keep up the expectation to become more successful than them. This is kind of like Biff, because even though his parents put him up on this pedestal, he knows that he isn't the best and that he isn't going anywhere in life. I also want my parents to be happy though so in that sense I am more like Happy, trying to do what my parents want me to do. Having the combination of both Happy and Biff makes it so I want to do what they want me to do, but I don't think I can live up to their expectations for me, fortunately for me though - I am not treated like Happy. I am encouraged to pursue what I want in life, but at a deeper level it is easy to tell they treat me more like Biff, in the sense that I should do better in life because they want me to live up to expectations (though they would never say that - they probably don't even know it themselves).