He moved away, has a house and a job, and seems to be the only one with his head on his shoulders. He came back home to visit, when everything was chaotic. He realized there was something wrong with his father, but continued to believe that things would get better and everything would fall into place. Biff and Happy both see the intense struggle in their father’s eyes and still expect their father to do a whole lot better. “Biff and Happy hold their father to impossible high standards, and he tries his best to live up to them. This causes Willy to deny the painful reality that he has not achieved anything of real value.” (Blogspot). The boys are bringing their father down.
Each and every one of the Lomans have there own way of self-deception. “The Lomans are extremely self-deceptive, and in their respective delusions and blindness to reality they fuel and feed off on another.” (Americandream). Linda continues to believe there is nothing wrong with her husband, Willy. She is an enabler meaning “Someone who does not address bad behavior, or doesn’t face the negative things in life.”(Blogspot). She puts everything off like its okay when she knows its …show more content…
The car kept going off onto the shoulder, y’know?” Linda: “ Oh. Maybe it was the steering again. I don’t think Angelo knows the Studebaker.” Willy: “No, its me, its me. Suddenly I realize I’m goin’ sixty miles an hour and I don’t remember the last five minutes. I’m-I cant seem to-keep my mind to it.” Linda: “ maybe its your glasses. You never went for your new glasses.” (death of a salesman). In this section of Act One of the play Linda endlessly creates excuses to why Willy might have gone of the road, because she doesn’t want to face the facts that Willy is sick and can no longer drive. She has been telling everyone and herself that it’s okay and does not face the truth. “Willy needs someone to stir him from his illusion, not someone to reaffirm his beliefs.” (Blogspot). Linda being so careless as to how Willy is feeling is affecting the whole family to do the