American Author's

1) Ike repudiated his inheritance for many reasons. The catalyst of this is Sam Fathers. After Ike's parents died he was basically taken under the advisement of Sam Fathers he built Ike's belief foundation. He taught Ike to respect the land and that nobody could own it, also that slavery was evil. From this we can see why Ike repudiated the land. Ike saw the land as evil and tainted because of what happened on it. …

…to smooth things over. Happy acts as a sort of establishment that his family can fall back on. Happy is the completely opposite of his father. His father is a salesman, and he is a buyer. Whenever his father would get a good sale he would say he massacred the buyer. Basically the relationship that Biff and Happy shared was a Buyer-salesman relationship, you have to have it however its not particularly a good relationship.