Assignment: Based on the events of Act I of Death of a Salesman, write two diary entries that Linda might have written. Each entry should be at least 100 words. Date one entry to indicate it was written in the past. Date the other entry to coincide with her current situation. What might this wife and mother have written?
Be sure to write these two diary entries in first-person, using words like "I," "me," "my," and "mine." Basically, you're role-playing. What is happening with your life? What are you thinking about your husband, your sons, your finances, love, marriage, parenting, the American Dream, success, etc.?
Concentrate on tone. Try to express feelings appropriate to the data you've gathered about this family in Act I. "Correctness" of this assignment depends upon your ability to refer to specifics in the play. However, you SHOULD NOT merely be providing plot summary. Instead, you're trying to internalize the events as they'd be seen through the eyes of this one character.
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