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Moving away from gothic extremes, the 20th century also produced profoundly realistic portrayals of maternal failure and unconditional, damaging love. Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman (1949) is a masterclass in the enabling mother. Linda Loman loves her son Biff and her husband Willy with a devotion that is both noble and tragic. She knows Willy is delusional, but she protects his fantasy. She begs Biff to humor his father, to lie. Linda is not a villain; she is a woman trying to hold her family together with the glue of denial. The result is that Biff cannot be honest, cannot leave, and cannot forgive—trapped between his father’s lies and his mother’s silent pleading.