Death of a Salesman

           In the play “Death of a Salesman” written by Arthur Miller, I was very disappointed and frustrated at Linda Loman who seems as an optimistic lovely wife.  In the play, she seems to really care for her family and seems to try her best to keep the family peaceful.  Yet, she is not aware of anything that is happening in her reality.  Thus, to me, she seems to be an ignorant mom who has some responsible for the problems in the play.  When Biff is not able to graduate from the high school because of Math, Linda has not done anything specific for Biff to help him.    If she really cares for him, then she should have listened to Bernard carefully and should have done something as soon as possible to make sure that Biff passes Math so that he could go to University of Virginia to have a bright future.  His failure to graduate high school is one of the major reasons why the thirty-four years old Biff still does not have a job.  Also in the past 3 years, Biff was away from home without an address.  However, Linda was not aware that Biff was in jail which shows the lack of sincere care toward her son.  I could not believe the fact that she has not even tried to meet her son for the past three years.  If she was a hard working mom, I might understand.  Yet, she is just an ordinary stay-home-mom, who should have had enough time to at least be curious about her son who is away without an address.  Not only her ignorant towards Biff ruins her son’s life, but also her stupidity could not prevent her husband, Willy, from committing a suicide.  When Linda finds the rubber tube in the cellar, she has not argued with Willy even though she is aware that Willy is trying to kill himself.  If I were Linda, I could have cut his hands off if necessary to save his life.  Not only could she have saved her husband’s life, but also she could have made Biff an important person if she played her role as a mom correctly.  Linda fails to make even one action that helps the family