hese skills.
             The name Loman that Miller picked for Willy is descriptive in itself. He is the low man on the totem pole, economically and socially. Linda, his wife, in Act One states, "A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man". Willy represents the average low to middle class American during the 1950's. Willy's house is also a symbol of him as it is described as a small and fragile, seeming against a solid vault of apartment houses. These apartments are the society, uncaring, that surrounds Willy, a little man, boxed in. In Scene One, Willy moans, "The way they boxed us in here
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