Towards the end of act one evreything starts to be revealed about the characters, linda starts to reveal willy's traits to her sons and starts to get emotional almost as if these secrets she has been keeping has become a burden to her. 'with great difficulty' this suggests that it is hard for her to talk about willy's downfalls 'hes been trying to kill himself ' because she wants only to protect him ' can I insult him that way'. This is said when she doesn't know wether to remove the rubber pipe he was going to kill himself with. The fact that this is something she is really priortitising- his pride or the little he has left of it highlights that this is something that may be very important to willy even more than life and denting his ego maybe worse to him than death and linda recognises this, as 'he goes to charley to borrow 50 dollors a week' but preteands he has earnt it suggests he cares so much about what he appears like.
Towards the end of act one We also see linda's perception of a 'great man' as she describes it as 'lot of money' , 'name never in the paper' and 'finest character'. These show us that linda views a great man to be rich, famous and have a fine character. She describes ' willy' to have none of these charecteristics but says he is a 'human being' so it's almost as if she sees all these things in a 'great man ' but it isn't what she wants and its just his 'being' that should gain him respect and lets him possess her love.
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