Irene Redfield, the wife of Brian Redfield and the mother of Ted and Junior, had, for her entire life, believed she was straight and had no sexual desire for …show more content…
In fact, throughout the book, they (Irene and Brian) never sat down and had a good discussion about life; their conversations would regularly end with either an argument or snide remarks to shut the other up.I is possible to draw a connection between this story and The death of a salesman. Both husbands in the story, Brian and Willy loman, had a dream to travel elsewhere and live there, and both were stopped by their wives Irene and Linda respectively. This is why, in both stories, they seemed dissatisfied with the direction life was going for