Sunday 25 April 2010

In a "Death of A Salesman" how does the cycle notion of family patterns affect this story "Cycle notion of family pattern affect

I would also
add the enabling issue in this particular family.

Linda enabled Willy's
infidelity by not questioning her husband enough, not getting to know exactly what was going on
on his trips. After so many years of marriage, you must question exactly how ignorant she was on
the situation. She is still enabling Willy, as she still has not stood a firm ground on getting
help for him. Instead, she pretends that all will pass, and that those episodes of insanity she
has to just put up with. She also wants to continue enabling Willy by asking the boys basically
to "work around him". Linda also chose to basically blame Biff for everything instead
of opening her eyes to see what was going on. She didn't set the record straight with Biff, nor
Happy- it was all a matter of not facing the elephant in the closet.

Happy
is also an enabler: He was tapping around the issue if Willy's illness and each time Biff tried
to bring...

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