For Willy, the main feeling regarding his kids, his own life, and his reason to live is dissappointment. He was dissappointed at himself for cheating and being found out by Biff. Equally, Biff was disappointed by what his Dad did, and by what his Dad had become (a delirious man stuck in the past).
Willy also became disappointed seeing Biff transform from a Football star to a na'e doer, as well as his other son, Happy. He also could not forgive the fact that he had let life slip through his fingers, losing everything he had tried so hard to achieve.
Happy, who is literally a "happy go lucky" kind of dude, simply went along with the farce, and was just as fed up with the situation of Biff, his mother being such a martyr and a victim of his father, and of his father's condition. But, much like Willy, he is also irresponsible about his actions, and much like Biff, he is also trying to recapture something they used to have and now is gone forever which is their American Dream.
Lastly, as all dwell in all that is gone, each is just a mirror of each other's failures and for this reason, they are loveless, careless, and clueless. All of them are a piece on each other's puzzle, and none of them can change a thing about it.
When Willy commits suicide, it would maybe show how he wanted to break the chain of disappointment and misery that all of this highly dysfunctional family caused each other. He thought that it was the only way to end all the vicious cycle and perhaps start over, without the main instigator who was none other than Willy Loman himself.
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