Character+Analysis+-+Linda

‘after this payment, Willy, the house belongs to us’ pg. 57   __ Relationship with Willy __ ‘shut up!’ pg. 31   ‘the man is exhausted’ pg. 44   ‘he’s only a little boat looking for a harbour’ pg. 59  ‘has developed an iron repression of her exceptions to Willy’s behaviour’ pg. 8  ‘well, next week you’ll do better’ pg. 28  ‘it’s changing, Willy, I can feel it changing!’ pg. 58  ‘Willy, darling, you’re the handsomest man in the world’  ‘Oh, that’s the spirit, Willy!’ pg. 58  ‘he’s just a big stupid man to you, but I tell you there’s more good in him than in many other people’ pg. 46  ‘oh, don’t be foolish’ pg. 28  ‘but you’re doing wonderful, dear. You’re making seventy to a hundred dollars a week’ pg. 28  ‘there’s nothing to make up, dear. You’re doing fine’ pg. 30  ‘I won’t have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and blue’ pg. 43  ‘he drives seven hundred miles, and when he gets there no one know him any more, no one welcomes him…why shouldn’t he talk to himself? Why?’ pg. 45  ‘Willy Loman never made a lot of money…but he’s a human being…so attention must be paid’ pg. 44 <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> __<span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Relationship with Biff and Happy __ ‘if you don’t have any feelings for [Willy], then you can’t have any feeling for me’ pg. 43  <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">‘he’s too rough with the girls’ pg. 31  <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> ‘what a woman! They broke the mould when they made her’ pg. 52
 * __ Linda Loman  __**
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">realistic and level-headed <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à  <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> manages household and all finances
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">accepts the view freedom as an escape from debt, the reward of total ownership of the material goods that symbolize success and stability – <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> but has not allowed it to consume her <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à  <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> is still emotionally stable <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">has nurtured the family through all of Willy's misguided attempts at success, and her emotional strength and perseverance support Willy until his collapse <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> is the emotional core of the family
 * has a similar longing for an idealized past, but has learned to suppress her dreams <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * loves Willy despite his lack of respect for her –
 * makes excuses for him –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">suffers through Willy's grandiose dreams and self-delusions <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> seems to sometimes be taken in by Willy's self-deluded hopes for future glory and success, but is she really? <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; font-family: Wingdings; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à  <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> might just be playing along with Willy <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">–
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> reassures him when he is in doubt –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> is she naïve for still loving and defending him? – she does not know about his mistress
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> does not measure Willy's worth in terms of his material success as he does –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">satisfied with what he can give her <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">
 * perpetually attempting to smooth out conflicts that Willy might encounter <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> –
 * condemns society in general for the ill treatment of her husband <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> –
 * admits Willy's failures but believes he should not just be forgotten <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Duty or love?
 * Loves her sons
 * But is most loyal to Willy <span style="vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Wingdings; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"> à   her children come second to Willy –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">knows in her heart that Biff is irresponsible –
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and that Happy is a ‘philandering bum’ pg. 45
 * <span style="vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 150%; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';">they love her, but do not understand the love she has for Willy –