His flute. He played the flute
Willy's father playing the flute could be an implication and the reason why the flute plays in the introduction and carries throughout the play and during Willy's flashbacks
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Be liked and you willnever want. You take me, for instance. I never have to waitin line to see a buyer. ‘‘Willy Loman is here!’’ That’s all theyhave to know, and I go right through
This flashback that Willy is having about his sons shows how optimistic he used to be about Biff and Haps future. Willy is nurturing and teaching his sons values of success and having great expectations for their futures. This particular interaction with Bernard shows how protective and fiercely competitive Willy has become in the business world. Willy is passing on his knowledge of how to "get ahead" to his sons to insure their success.
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That’s when I comerunning home. And now, I get here, and I don’t know whatto do with myself. [After a pause] I’ve always made a pointof not wasting my life, and everytime I come back here Iknow that all I’ve done is to waste my life.
Biff's ability to compartmentalize his life shows that he is self aware and trying to ground himself in order to set an example for his younger brother. Biff is compelled to seek truth in his life and contemplates wether or not he is going to be able to find satisfaction
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She gets out and puts on a robe, listening. Mostoften jovial, she has developed an iron repression of her ex-ceptions towilly’sbehavior—she more than loves him, sheadmires him, as though his mercurial nature, his temper, hismassive dreams and little cruelties, served her only as sharpreminders of the turbulent longings within him, longings whichshe shares but lacks the temperament to utter and follow totheir end.
Linda's role in the introduction can be quickly analyzed from her reaction to Willy coming home. Her eagerness to help and appease her husband is apparent in their arrangement described as her enduring verbal abuse. The description of her loyalty emphasizes her emotional strength and perservernace
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The entire setting is wholly or, in some places, partially trans-parent
Possibly eluding to Willy's flashbacks and the synthetic nature of his current domestic lifestyle against the thoughts in his head. The transparency between the house not only allows the audience to view the home but it also adds to the disillusionment that Willy is experiencing later on.
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