death of a saleman

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Willy and Linda have a typical marriage but it seems as if it is Linda that is keeping the family together. You can tell that Linda cares deelply for Willy, because the way that she talks to him. When Willy came back from Yonkers and he was explaining to Linda about why he turned around and came back home, he tells Linda that he was having some lapses in his conscienceness, all she did was tell him to take a rest.(p.13)

She could have just as easily told him that they need money to pay the bills and they could not afford to have him missing work. Biff says" stop making excuses for him! He always, always wiped the floor with you. Never had an ounce of respect for you. (p.55) Biff brought the theory to a conclusion. Also on page thirteen Willy and Linda have a dialogue that makes it more obvious of the understanding she has for her husba


In the Requim when the Linda, Biff, Charley and Happy are the only ones at his funeral and Linda asks where are all the people he knew. That shows that Willy was not as well known as he bragged to Biff and Happy whe they were young boys. In the final lines of the novel(p.139) when Linda sobs as she says "we're free... we're free..." Linda means that the family is free from all the pain that they went through when Willy was alive. In the end of the novel Linda finally has the courage to say how she really feels, but still in a suttle way.

You would not know the true reason of Willy flaring up at Linda for mending a stocking until Willy has flashbacks about the affair he had with another woman,(p.121) this also explains why he and Biff are not on good terms. On page one hundred twenty-one Bif sobs while he says "You-you gave her Mama's stockings!" this brought the whole reason that Willy feels guilty a

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Approximate Word count = 613
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)

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