Pride In Arthur Miller's Death Of A Salesman

Today’s society really only teaches one rule in life growing up; respect people the way you want to be respected. And in Miller’s play he shows this through the characters. In Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, Linda’s speech suggests that people usually let their pride get the best of them instead of actually caring about what is needed most; the respect from family and friends. When Biff, Happy and Linda are arguing about who Willy really is as a person, Biff tells Linda, “Stop making excuses for him! He always, always wiped the floor with you. Never had an ounce of respect for you” (40). Biff tries to state that since Willy is supposedly liked so much in the business environment that he is in, he does not even care about respecting