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On the surface it can be hard to tell whether a person is genuine, or whether their genuity is just a façade. Linda Loman fits perfectly into this category, without reading into her, or just focusing on Willy as being the one in the family with the problems, Linda carries the illusion of the perfect wife. On the outside she is loving, kind, generous, and only seems to want the best for her boys and husband no matter how disillusioned their dreams may be. After going back and looking at her character in the play again, one will see that her love and kindness is tainted by her trying to cover up her own unhappiness in order to please Willy. But no matter what Willy says or does or how unhappy she may be she still truly believes that he loves her and she knows that she loves him. This kind of lying to oneself to