Movies: Small People, Great Pain

scene of confrontation with his son Biff, this is not a fellow you want to see cringing, his once-booming voice reduced to a cracked vessel.

Biff, 34 years old, is home after some years out West as a farmhand, having utterly failed to live up to his father’s expectations. Willy has failed even more miserably. Death condenses 24 hours, in the course of which he loses his job and resolves to die by auto “accident” in hope of leaving his family the insurance money.