Howard  by Sandra      Howard Wagner is thirty-six and inherited the company from his father. It is extremely difficult for Howard to face up to firing Willy. Whenever Willy tries to bring up business, Howard diverts the conversation with talk about his family. We learn that he is devoted father and that gadgets fascinate him, always taking up the newest fad. Howard is not an insensitive man, but Willy for a long time has not been pulling his weight. We feel that he is somewhat sorry for Willy, but his responsibility is to running a profitable company.
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     To me, Howard seems to be a little cruel to Willy. Though he has his own difficulties. But he is kind of escaping instead of solving the problem with Willy. We can see this from the dialogue from page 1198 to 1202. Back to Character Analyses