Willy and Linda have a typical marriage but it seems as if it is Linda that is keeping the family together. You can tell that Linda cares deelply for Willy, because the way that she talks to him. When Willy came back from Yonkers and he was explaining to Linda about why he turned around and came back home, he tells Linda that he was having some lapses in his conscienceness, all she did was tell him to take a rest.(p.13) She could have just as easily told him that they need money to pay the bills and they could not afford to have him missing w ....