Willy and Jay both betrayed someone in these two stories. Willy cheated on his wife by having an affair with another woman. According to “An Overview of the Death of a Salesman” by L.M. Domina, “What had happened, of course, as Willy later recalled and as he probably recalled often during the years that followed, was that Biff had discovered Willy in the midst of an affair extramarital. Unlike Linda, who often appears with socks in need of darning, this other woman receives expensive socks as a gift from Willy. The existence of this woman (and perhaps others like her) is a contributing factor to the Loman family's financial strain. Biff understands this immediately, and also understands the depth of Willy's betrayal of Linda and the family as a whole. During this part of the show, Willy has a flashback to the time he was having an affair and his son surprised him. One thing Biff immediately notices are the socks that Willy gives the woman. While Linda has to darn her socks, this lady receives lavish gifts and socks. Also, stockings were expensive at that time, so it's shameful that he would buy a pair for a random woman compared to his wife who he "loves". The guilt is eating him alive and he can no longer face it. He not only cheats on his wife but also his son Biff. Biff idolized his father as a child, but when he caught him with the woman, he finally saw the truth about his hero. In this play, Biff yells “you're fake! You little fake fake! You're fake! to his father thus making him feel even more guilty (Miller 194). In The Great Gatsby, betrayal is a recurring theme that happens quite often between all the characters such as Daisy and Tom and Daisy and Gatsby. Jay Gatsby ends up cheating on someone who is probably not ideal. He ends up betraying himself. According to "The Et Tu Brute Complex" the compulsive self-betrayal of Robert Lawrence Antus,