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Death Of A Saleman - College Paper

Death Of A Saleman

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 ...

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Willy and Linda Loman is deeper and more complex than it may seem at first. (p.39)
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 about his wife having to mend stockings while he gave his wifes stockings away as gifts to another woman. (p.121)
Linda Loman has a very unusual part in this story, because she is the reason that Biff and his father hate each other. Biff knows that his father was cheating on his mother and that is the reason that he calls Willy a phony. This relationship between Willy and Linda really comes into perspective after Bif finds out about the affair that his father was having. This also explains why Bif's attitude toward his father is similar ...

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Added: 5/11/2006 08:17:18 PM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
Words: 563
Pages: 3

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