Frankenstein

The "supportive wife", is a wife that goes along with everything the husband has to say. Regardless if she truly agrees or not. In "Death of a Salesman", Linda is the epitome of the "supportive wife", she does everything Willy does with a nod and a smile. Sometimes being the "supportive wife", can unintentionally destroy the husband's life.

For a woman to be the ideal "supportive wife", she has to have patience and a strong heart. Willy yells so harshly at Linda and because she loves him and supports everything in his life she takes it, like she has just been stabbed in the chest and just stands still. Many women believe that we should just sit back and do as the husband; the man of the house would order us to do. Some women have no backbone of their own because they have let there husbands walk all over them for years. Even though women are treated with disrespect they still love and support their husbands in every decision. The reason women are "support wives", is because the men bring home the paychecks and women can't argue with their method of getting it to them.

The word support means to hold in position so as to keep from falling, sinking, or slipping away. This word defines the characteristics of Linda because she holds Willy up and tries to not let him fall. But also at the same time she does let him slip through the cracks because she only tells him what he wants to hear to better himself and to make him believe he is something he is not. "Willy, darling, you're the handsomest man in the worldÐ'..." (1812).

The "supportive wife", would never argue with the husband afraid that he might find another woman that would love and support him better than herself. The husband agrees that women should be this way because men need some kind of support and the best way to retrieve that is to find the ideal "support wife".