LINDA

Question 1

iron impression

Answer 1

going to explode, wants him to have a break? anxious around husband.
wants him to do well- why she is disreagrding or living dream through him

Question 2

maybe its your glasses

Answer 2

enabler, doesn’t want him to give up or might loose himself? feels sorry for him. OR own dreams not helping at the right time, won’t admit herself he’s dying, tradiotnal house wife, she’s only one that influences him.

Question 3

‘lifes casting off, its always that way’

Answer 3

salesman/ad not for everyone, fate is inevitable, trying to help?

Question 4

‘I think he’s lost willy, very lost’

Answer 4

talking about biff- doesn’t feed into his delusions like Willys, not knowing were biff stands. maybe biff more stable so can criticise, has longer life left, help before its too late

Question 5

‘there all open dear’ (windows )

Answer 5

knows about liminal state, ad corruption, change, came to terms with it, wants willy to come to terms with poverty, change, hierarchy.

Question 6

‘be careful on the stairs dear’

Answer 6

foreshadowing how fragile willy/ ad is working way up, achkonlowdges Willys defeat - falling down stairs

Question 7

he used to be able to make 6/7 calls a day in Boston
MONOLOUGE

Answer 7

geography context, numbers-illuding to how he died, rhetorical questions, he still attends job=doesnt have open mind

Question 8

how can I insult him that way?
by taking rubber pipe

Answer 8

trapped in helping willy-too far along, doesnt want to humiliate him(1948 women), wants him to keep trying to work /admirable