Linda Loman
English Lit: AQA A Level Death of a Salesman, topic 11.1.2
Quotations About Linda Loman
Here are a few quotations about Linda Loman's character:
Sensitive about Willy
- Miller’s stage directions show Linda’s apprehension when dealing with Willy:
- “With some trepidation”
- “Carefully”
- “Sensitively”
- “With infinite patience”
Willy's support
- Willy describes Linda as his “foundation” and “support”.
Struggling
- Biff: “Mom got grey… got awful old”.
- Linda says she lives “from day to day”.
- Willy: Linda has “suffered”.
Confrontational
- Calls both her sons a “bum”.
- Calls her sons “a pair of animals” after abandoning Willy.
- Calls Happy’s women “lousy, rotten whores”.
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.
Believes in consumerism
- Reassures Willy that their Hastings refrigerator must be a good model as it had “the biggest ads of any of them”.
Test yourself on Linda Loman
Which quotations does Miller use to show that Linda suffers?