What Is Willy's Intentions In Death Of A Salesman

Good intentions do not always create a good outcome.As seen in The Death of a Salesman. This play focus on a family of four, the Loman family; Willy, Linda his wife and their two sons Biff and Happy. They are very poor and Willy is the only one who works, even though both his sons are over twenty five.Willy is a salesman and works on commission even though he has been with his company long enough no be treated as a new salesman.As he has gotten older and other issues have arisen it has made selling a lot harder and since he is on commission it has made is income even less.To the point where he borrows fifty dollars from his neighbor every week to give to his wife as his “income”. Due to their lack of money the family are on each others cases
In the first few pages of the book it becomes evident that Linda is ignoring the issues with her husband when she says “But you didn’t rest your mind. Your mind is overactive, and the mind is what counts, dear.” (6). When Willy is explaining how he came back early as he felt tired and then had swerved off the road many time; Linda said it was not an issue and that he just had not rested enough. While if this was a one time thing the ignorance could have been expected of the time period; yet it was after he had destroyed two cars in wrecks and had been talking to himself. Thus her ignorance of his tiredness is does not helping her family as it continues to but puts Willy’s life in danger. Then when it is revealed that Willy is cheating and Linda says “It seems there’s a woman”.(41) Linda is aware that there is another woman but does not do anything about it. Even when talking with one of her sons about it she says she does not want to confront him to embarrass him.Even though she knows her family can barely make rent and cannot afford new clothes she lets him buy things for her. Linda lets her family fall further into poverty and not say anything when he is buying things for another woman. She says she does not want to embarrass him more as she also knows that her husband is trying to kill himself and she even knows how yet after she takes it away everyday she “put(s) it back where it was.”(42). Linda will not talk to her husband about his issues and what he is doing; she also would not take away how he was planning on committing suicide. She is so afraid to call him out on hos issue and try and help him that she lets him continue so he can have his pride; she believes that his pride is more important than his life. This does not help him as in the end he takes his own life and it is not apparent if him talking with him could have helped him. She