Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

When Linda tells Happy the company took Willy's lucre away and Happy says he was unaw be of that, Linda tells him: "You never asked, my h wholenessy! Now that you get your spending money some pull 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 discourse of their father, she primarily refers to Willy as "dear" throughout the play and caters to his all need. She suffers almost as much as Willy does from his loss of haughtiness 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 darn he is out of the house. She replaces the rubber hose because of her respect for him. As she explains to punch, "When he comes home?I put it back where it was. How derriere I insult him that way? I don't know what to do. I live from day to day boys?he put his building block life into you and you've turned your backs on him. sack, I swear to divinity; 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 other 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 rupture 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 char?," 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 change 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 getting points for manufacturers, we see he equates women as some kind of illegal gain that is best avoided. The comparison to a prostitute is overt, "Manufacturers mountain pass me a hundred-dollar bill now and then to throw an order their way. You know how honest I am, but 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 do it 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. new(prenominal) women in the play include Miss Forsythe and Letta, two green girls who are to meet Biff and Happy at Frank's cleaver 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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