Willy Loman
An insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman. He believes wholeheartedly in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it.
Biff Loman
Willy's thirty-four-year-old elder son. He led a charmed life in high school as a football star with scholarship prosp...
Death of a Salesman character list
Willy Loman - answer An insecure, self-deluded traveling salesman. He believes wholeheartedly
in the American Dream of easy success and wealth, but he never achieves it.
Biff Loman - answer Willy's thirty-four-year-old elder son. He led a charmed life in high school as
a football star with scholarship prospects, good male friends, and fawning female admirers. He
failed math, however, and did not have enough credits to graduate.
Linda Loman - answer Willy's loyal, loving wife. She suffers through Willy's grandiose dreams
and self-delusions.
Happy Loman - answer Willy's thirty-two-year-old younger son. He has lived in Biff's shadow all
of his life. Additionally, he practices bad business ethics and sleeps with the girlfriends of his
superiors.
Charley - answer Willy's next-door neighbor. He owns a successful business and his son,
Bernard, is a wealthy, important lawyer. Willy is jealous of Charley's success.
Benard - answer He is Charley's son and an important, successful lawyer. Although Willy used to
mock Bernard for studying hard.
Ben - answer Willy's wealthy older brother. He has recently died and appears only in Willy's
"daydreams." Willy regards Ben as a symbol of the success that he so desperately craves for
himself and his sons.
The woman - answer Willy's mistress when Happy and Biff were in high school. Her attention
and admiration boost Willy's fragile ego. When Biff catches Willy in his hotel room with The
Woman, he loses faith in his father, and his dream of passing math and going to college dies.
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