The American Dream Death of A Salesman

When Linda tells Happy the company took Willy's salary away and Happy says he was unaw atomic number 18 of that, Linda tells him: "You never asked, my full! Now that you get your spending m sensationy some base else you don't trouble your mind with him" (From, p. 13).

Linda says of her husband that he is "only a little boat looking for a harbor" (Miller, p. 76). Linda acts as solace and comfort for Willy. While she challenges her sons and confronts them directly about their discussion of their father, she primarily refers to Willy as "dear" throughout the play and caters to his every(prenominal) need. She suffers almost as much as Willy does from his loss of superciliousness and identity. Linda knows Willy has been trying to kill himself, from the accidents he has been having that the insurance company says are staged to the rubber hose she finds in the basement and hides opus he is out of the house. She replaces the rubber hose because of her respect for him. As she explains to paper bag, "When he comes home?I put it back where it was. How move I insult him that way? I don't know what to do. I live from day to day boys?he put his unit life into you and you've turned your backs on him. slug, I swear to perfection; Biff, his life is in your hands!" (From, p. 15).

We see in Willy's daydreams and flashbacks that one of the reasons the boys may have turned their backs on Willy is due to the another(prenominal) type of women portrayed by Miller, mistress

es and prostitutes. When Biff and Happy were in high school, Biff inadvertently walks into his father's hotel room and catches him with his mistress, the Woman in the play. This creates a intermission between Willy and his son that will last until Willy eventually kills himself. When Linda is explaining to Biff about Willy's "staged" accidents, she says "It seems there's a muliebrity?," to which Biff replies, "What woman?" (From, p. 15).

Biff has concealed his knowledge of Willy's tryst from his mother, who he sees as long suffering and unappreciated because of the affair. However, Happy is also abnormal by his view of women as whores or as temptresses to be resisted. In one scene when he is explaining to his father his experiences acquire strays for manufacturers, we see he equates women as some kind of muddied gain that is best avoided. The comparison to a prostitute is overt, "Manufacturers furnish me a hundred-dollar bill now and then to throw an order their way. You know how honest I am, exclusively it's like this girl, see. I hate myself for it. Because I don't want the girl, and, still, I take it and-I go to sleep it!" (Miller, p. 25).

The only women in the play aside from Linda who is portrayed as being competent or loyal is Charley's secretary Jenny, but her role is so small as to be insignificant. early(a) women in the play include Miss Forsythe and Letta, two younker girls who are to meet Biff and Happy at Frank's chop up House. However, Miller seems to suggest these girls are whores because of the way Happy goes on and on about their lack of morals and because they are referred to as being "on call" (Miller, p. 94). The women in Death of A Salesman t
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