How Does Willy Change Throughout The Play

Linda's Function in the play is being a concerned wife and mother, who struggles to make ends meet and keep her family happy. She is also there to boost his confidence about himself. Linda is a good person who loves and admires her husband Willy. She knows that Willy is difficult to deal with, is suicidal, and confuses the past with the present, but she still puts up with him, makes excuses for him and protects his emotions and dreams because she admires him so much. In many ways Willy is like a small child, and Linda is like a mother who anxiously protects him from Biff, Happy, and the rest of the world, because of this Linda treats Willy like a child by lying to him and supporting him to make him feel better about himself. For example, When
She tries telling Willy that he shouldn’t be travelling far for work anymore because it is going to get harder as he becomes older. Willy responds by saying “They don’t need me in New York. I’m a New England man. I’m vital in New England”. LInda says “But You’re sixty years old, they can’t expect you to keep travelling every week”. This quote is showing how Linda is always making excuses for Willy, she is saying that Willy is getting older and it is going to be harder for him to travel each week so she wants him to ask for a job where they live but Willy doesn't want to because he wants to be well liked and in New England he is well liked. We also see Linda as a character who is always defending her husband even though he can give her a rough time. She is always trying to make him feel well liked and to feel included in things. It is hard for him to feel liked when he is with his son Biff because Biff knows about the affair and does not like his father because of it. Linda shows this when she says to Biff “ No you can’t just come see me because I love him. He’s my dearest man in the world to me, and I won’t have anyone making him feel unwanted and low and blue (pg