Death Of A Salesman Willy's Wife Analysis

Wife of a Salesman Lind is a wife to Willy Loman and mother to their two boys in Death of a Salesman, written by Arthur Miller. The wife in this time period is her husbands biggest support and her family's peace maker. Linda is trying to support her husband, keep her family at peace, maintain the house and has to deal with a terrible tragedy. Death of a Salesman is set in a older time period 1949. During this time period the wife is the biggest support for her husband. Linda loves Willy so much that she is oblivious to his actions most of the time. Willy has try's many times to kill himself or harm himself. After every time Willy has harmed himself Linda tries to overlook it. Linda will support Willy by telling him sweet comments, " Willy darling you're the handsomest in the world"( Miller 37). Willy has cheated on Linda many times, but because of this time period Linda still loves and supports her husband. Many ways that she supports Willy is that she stands up for him, agrees with him and defends him every chance she gets. The Loman family is like

The wife's at this time period didn't do much. They would clean and maintain the house, take care of children and cook. Later on though Linda has to deal with much more then the basic wife duties and mother duties. One night after Biff, Happy and Willy had an argument the wife role changed drastically. Will had went out but he had got in a car accident and died. Linda has just told Willy that the house was about to be theirs and that they can live freely with no house payments. After all the tragedy had happened Linda had a hard time grasping the thought that Willy was not going to come back. Linda says, "I can't cry. I don't know what it is, but I can't cry" (Miller 139). The house felt lonely to Linda after she was not able to share it without her husband. Although the house was lonely to Linda she still had her boys to keep up with