Biff Loman of Death of a salesman is in many ways similar to Nora, a female
             character in Henrik Ibsen's A doll's house'. Both suffer from identity
             crisis and are living in a delusional world, which has been created by the
             lies that others feed them. Biff is the eldest son of Willy Loman who lacks
             self-esteem and due to his own failures, he has created a delusional world
             around him where he is a successful man and Biff is an equally brilliant
             person. However the reality is quite different. Biff reluctantly plays
             along until his moment of epiphany when he intuitively grasps reality and
             realizes that he father had been wrong about him and he is nothing but an
             ordinary man. Similarly Nora lives in a world of delusions and considers
             herself blessed until the day when she awakes to the reality of the
             situation and realizes how she had lost such important years of her life,
             living in a world that didn't really exist.
             Death of a salesman revolves around the disillusioned and delusional world
             of Willy Loman, a salesman who is a tragic figure and consistently misleads
             everyone including himself into believing that he was an important man.
             Biff's inability to connect to reality or to grasp it was solely due to his
             father's delusional state of mind. Similarly A Doll's House focuses on the
             life of a nave housewife, Nora, who again has no identity of her own and
             lives in a world defined and dictated by her husband. Both Biff and Nora
             are confused about their own identity but the causes of this and
             consequences too are different in each case. In Biff's case, lack of a real
             identity originates from his inability to reconcile himself with the
             reality. In Nora's case, however loss of identity stems from living in a
             patriarchal society and just like Biff, she finally regains her identity
             and this completely shatters everything she had previously believed in.
             A Doll's House is a masterpiece of a man who...