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I would also add the enabling issue in this particular family.

Linda enabled Willy's infidelity by not questioning her husband enough, not getting to know exactly what was going on on his trips. After so many years of marriage, you must question exactly how ignorant she was on the situation. She is still enabling Willy, as she still has not stood a firm ground on getting help for him. Instead, she pretends that all will pass, and that those episodes of insanity she has to just put up with. She also wants to continue enabling Willy by asking the boys basically to "work around him". Linda also chose to basically blame Biff for everything instead of opening her eyes to see what was going on. She didn't set the record straight with Biff, nor Happy- it was all a matter of not facing the elephant in the closet.

Happy is also an enabler: He was tapping around the issue if Willy's illness and each time Biff tried to bring his father back to reality, Happy would just giggle-it-up, or say something positive to cool off the situation and pretend all is OK. This was not helping Willy, nor Linda, land on what the real issues were.

Biff, for the fact of not being an enabler, just ran away from that enmesh situation altogether. Because he was not willing to enable Willy's infidelity, he broke ties with everyone- However, he did not face the situation either, and in the end it all ended in Willy's imminent death- all because nobody took the first step to say "enough".