Linda is very strict with her children. He has no problem telling them what's what and what to do with themselves. Now, however, it seems that she is afraid of her husband Willy. He talks to him as if something bad would happen if he said something bad to him. Willy loves her and always tells her how much she cares for him and kind of praises him. Linda is aware of Will's suicidal tendencies, but keeps them to herself out of fear of what this will do to Willie's ego. In one part of the play Linda states, "A small man can be as exhausted as a big man" and "He's not the best character who ever lived." When these things were said I looked a little deeper and it was expressed that she was referring to her husband's state of mind. “I think it is safe to assume that Linda's first quote describes her husband's major depressive episode with psychotic features and her second quote, his narcissistic personality disorder.” Howard L. Forman