Cause I get so lonely – especially when business is bad and there’s nobody to talk to. I get the feeling that I’ll never sell anything again, that I won’t make a living for you, or a business, a business for the boys. (He talks through The Woman’s subsiding laughter; The Woman primps at the "mirror".) There’s so much I want to make for…
– Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman, Act 1. The Woman is part of a memory and hallucination that torments Willy. She appears while he is recalling a conversation with his wife Linda some years before. While he assures Linda that he wants to work hard to provide for his family, the stage directions remind us that he is betraying Linda with The Woman.