Death of a Salesman - Reflective Entry

After completing my reading of this play, I had many questions that remained ambiguous. One of them was did Linda know that Willy was unfaithful to her? It is not clear how long Willy has been delusional. Did she stay with him to keep an eye out on him? I would think she would know that he had an affair based on all the talking he did with himself. I would think that something would have been revealed through his hallucinations and flashbacks. She seems so in love with him, even through his lying and odd behavior. She continues to try to build him up, even though he has not done much to earn it. "Willy, darling, you're the handsomest man in the world...And the boys, Willy. Few men are idolized by their children the way you are," (1563). In reality the boys do not seem to idolize their father, especially not Biff. She frequently told her sons to stop aggravating Willy or leave. She still chose him over her children. I never quite understood why Linda tries to make him out as a better person than he is.