11.1.2

Linda Loman

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Quotations About Linda Loman

Here are a few quotations about Linda Loman's character:

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Sensitive about Willy

  • Miller’s stage directions show Linda’s apprehension when dealing with Willy:
    • “With some trepidation”
    • “Carefully”
    • “Sensitively”
    • “With infinite patience”
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Willy's support

  • Willy describes Linda as his “foundation” and “support”.
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Struggling

  • Biff: “Mom got grey… got awful old”.
  • Linda says she lives “from day to day”.
  • Willy: Linda has “suffered”.
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Confrontational

  • Calls both her sons a “bum”.
  • Calls her sons “a pair of animals” after abandoning Willy.
  • Calls Happy’s women “lousy, rotten whores”.
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Insightful

  • “So attention must be paid… Attention, attention must be finally paid to such a person”.
    • Many commentators regard this as a central message of the play: that the ‘common man’ deserves respect and dignity.
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Believes in consumerism

  • Reassures Willy that their Hastings refrigerator must be a good model as it had “the biggest ads of any of them”.

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1Introduction

2Act One

3Act Two

4Extended Passage Analysis

5Character Profiles

6Key Themes

7Writing Techniques

8Historical Context

9Literary Context

10Critical Debates

11Recap: Main Quotes

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