Charley seems quite satisfied with his life and son. Although Willy terms his children very successful, he is jealous of the financial success of Charley and his son. Willy often visits Charley to borrow money for his bills. Both father and son are very successful in earning money. Character #5Ĭharley is Willy’s neighbor and father of Bernard. His presentation of the bouquet to his mother shows that he loves his mother and becomes upset after his father dies. The major drawback of his character is that he has no self-control, for he is a confirmed womanizer despite his claims that “I don’t want the girl” and admits that he cannot avoid it. Although he has a good career, his father does not think it is right. Most of these activities besides jobs include finding girls and running after them. He is working as an assistant manager in a store. Happy or Hap is the youngest of the two sons of the Loman family. That is why she tells her son, Biff, that if he does not have any feeling for his father, then she does not have any feelings for him. Overall, she has resigned to her fate despite her efforts to make her sons emotionally support Willy. She immediately senses that he is going to commit suicide and asks Biff to help his father. She is also very understanding in that she realizes that Willy’s hallucinations are symbols of his declining psychological state of mind. She is also very loving to Willy despite his demeaning behavior toward her. She rebukes Biff for not working to support his father. She also supports her husband’s dreams of success and prosperity in the future and stands by her husband until the end. Linda is a faithful wife of Willy Loman, a failed salesman and is a realist. In the end, he admits to his father that he wants to be a normal young man and lead a simple life. He tries to win some success to show the evidence to his father. Willy wishes him to become a businessman, but he wavers in his resolve to become a business tycoon and flees to the west to work on ranches. After finding his father flirting with a woman of Boston, he becomes disillusioned and leaves studies. Despite being a star athlete during his school years and winning a scholarship, he could not graduate from the college. Son of Willy and Linda, Biff is a failure in his career. Finally, seeing failures in his life, he commits suicide. However, the tragic fact is that his children never understood him despite his wife’s efforts to make Happy and Biff realize their father’s situation. He wants his family to live in luxury but his hard work does not pay off, and his sons do not become serious in adopting a good career or succeeding in life. In fact, he is chasing his American dream of having wealth and freedom to enjoy it with his family. A lively old man, Willy Loman is full of aspirations to excel in his career. He works as a traveling salesman in the region of New England. He is the husband of Linda, father of Happy and Biff and brother of Ben. Willy Loman is a major character and the protagonist of the play, Death of a Salesman.
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