A Walk to Remember

By Scene 9, we see just how unreasonable Willy and Happy both are. Biff is the only mature, sane one. He doesn't deny the truth. He lives in reality. It's unfair that his life turned out this certain way because of his father and the way he raised him. Biff begs Happy to help Willy, but Happy just refuses, blames Biff for Willy's condition, and leaves without paying the tab. Willy is completely mentally collapsing. He knows that all is lost--both his job and Biff's chance of success--so he resorts to the past to escape the present. He feels that the only way to regain order in the present is by making sense of the past. Its very difficult as a reader to determine what is happening in the present and what's in the past.