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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. Nor do his sons fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. When his illusions begin to fail under the pressing realitie...

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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. Nor do his sons
fulfill his hope that they will succeed where he has failed. When his illusions begin to fail under
the pressing realities of his life, his mental health begins to unravel. The overwhelming tensions
caused by this disparity, as well as those caused by the societal imperatives that drive him, form
the essential conflict of Death of a Salesman.


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. Since then, his kleptomania
has gotten him fired from every job that he has held. He represents Willy's vulnerable, poetic,
tragic side. He cannot ignore his instincts, which tell him to abandon Willy's paralyzing dreams
and move out West to work with his hands. He ultimately fails to reconcile his life with Willy's
expectations of him.


Linda Loman - answer Willy's loyal, loving wife. She suffers through Willy's grandiose dreams
and self-delusions. Occasionally, she seems to be taken in by Willy's self-deluded hopes for
future glory and success, but at other times, she seems far more realistic and less fragile than
her husband. She has nurtured the family through all of Willy's misguided attempts at success,
and her emotional strength and perseverance support Willy until his collapse.


Happy Loman - answer Willy's thirty-two-year-old younger son. He has lived in his brother's
shadow all of his life, but he compensates by nurturing his relentless sex drive and professional
ambition. He represents Willy's sense of self-importance, ambition, and blind servitude to
societal expectations. Although he works as an assistant to an assistant buyer in a department
store, he presents himself as supremely important. 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 his success. He gives Willy money to
pay his bills, and Willy reveals at one point, choking back tears, that he is his only friend.

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