During this reading, Willy has a flashback to when Biff discovered that he was cheating on Linda. At the beginning of the play, there is a “woman” that is unidentified. It is not until this point in the play that the reader discovers the mysterious woman is Willy’s mistress. The woman’s laugh at the beginning of the play foreshadows to the time when Biff shows up at his father’s hotel room and hears the woman laughing from the bathroom. Also at the beginning of the play, there are multiple references to Linda knitting stockings and Willy getting upset about her doing so. When the stockings were first mentioned, I simply thought that her patching up stockings symbolized their lack of money. After the discovery of Willy’s mistress, she asks him for the pair of stockings that he had promised her. The stockings not only connect the two women, but Willy’s anger about Linda patching up her old stockings proves that he wants her to have new stockings, like his mistress does.
Throughout the play, thus far, it is evident that each character is struggling with events from their past, especially Willy. Clearly Willy’s mental disorder stems from his past and the regrets that he has. I wonder, will Willy admitting his humanly faults result in a correction of his mental disorder?
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