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Death Of A Salesman 9 - College Paper

Death Of A Salesman 9

Loving a person too much can often be deceiving. Failing to act upon the truth in order to protect an individual’s pride and emotions can bring about destruction for the American Dream. Lois Gordon’s quote about Linda is a good example of the disillusionment that many people experience when loving someone too much, when he says, “Linda, as the eternal wife and mother, the fixed point of affection both given and received, is, in many ways, the earth mother who embodies the play’s ultimate moral value--love. But in the beautiful, ironic complexity of her creation, she is also Willy’s destroyer.” In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman Linda ...

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or insensitively, but she understands the pain and fear behind his behavior, and forgives him in those moments. Willy is rude to Linda when he says, (page 65) “Will you let me talk? Don’t take his side all the time, goddammit!” When Biff responds to Willy’s discourteousness by furiously yelling at him, Linda sympathetically says, (page 65)“What’d you have to start that for? You see how sweet he was as soon as you talked hopefully? Come up and say good night to him. Don’t let him go to bed that way.” Even though Willy treats Linda sternly, she cares for him so much that she forgives and excuses his actions. Miller tells us, "she more than loves him, she admires him." A man with as delicate a sense of self-worth as Willy cannot tolerate his wife's discordance with him, so Linda has adjusted herself to ignore her own opinions in favor of her husband. Linda also suffers in the way that her sons do not give enough respect to ...

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Added: 5/20/2004 10:31:44 AM
Category: English
Type: Free Paper
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