When Biff is young, Willy lives vicariously through Biff's popularity and success in high school. He sees them as proving his view of life; this popularity equals success. This prevents Willy from realizing that he is neither a good father nor a good salesman and that he is failing in his own life. Comparing Bernard to his own sons, he says: "Bernard can get top grades at school, you understand, but when he enters the business world, you will understand, you will be five times ahead of him." When Biff fails again and again after high school, Willy sees this as a rejection of him. He accuses her of wickedness and returns to better times more and more often in his mind, becoming more and more delusional and unable to face the reality of his life. Linda notes that Willy hallucinates more when Biff is around. "And then the closer you seem to get, the more he shakes, and then, by the time you get here, he's arguing and seems angry with you." In the final scene, Biff tells Willy the whole truth and begins to cry. Willy realizes that Biff really loves him. Willy has already decided to kill himself, but now he thinks Biff will love and admire him even more for it. “Always loved me.” Isn't that a remarkable thing? Well, he'll love me for that! Her relationship with Biff, in some ways the most important of her family relationships, prevents her from recognizing the truth of her life at every stage. Thus, in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman's failure as a salesman, father, and human being can be attributed to the fact that he was abandoned by his family, to the fact that his family allowed his biased ideas and his conflict with his son Biff. This shows that family can have serious implications on a person's life, for better or for good.