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| "I never had the chance to say good-by. Forgive me dear. I can't cry. I don't know what it is, but I can't cry. I don't understand it. Why did you ever do that? Help me, Willy, I can't cry. It seems to me that you're just on another trip. I keep expecting you. Willy, dear, I can't cry. Why did you do it? I search and search and I search, and I can't understand it Willy. I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there's nobody home. We're free and clear. We're free. We're free...We're free..." Miller, 1612 |
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| (I think Linda is actually relieved that a major part of her burden is gone, but at the same time she's in despair because she lost her husband and her purpose in life, and doesn't know what to do. In a way, I think that when she said "We're free" she meant she was free from him. It scared her that she felt a smidgen of relief, and she can't understand it. I wonder what the aftermath of Willy's death will do to Linda now that Willy is gone. Will she carry on with her facade that everything is wonderful, or will she sink into depression, drinking, loneliness? Will her inner problems be relieved or intensified? Is her own world shattered into specks of OCD and low self esteem? Perhaps Linda will go through withdrawal losing Willy in the same way Willy felt for Ben. Maybe she'll hallucinate about him and make up stuff about her life to make something of herself now that she doesn't have a spouse to fall back on. I get the feeling that she and Willy are a lot alike in the same respect as mental instability no matter what happens. | ||||||||||||