Job Offer

I think that Willy made a really really dumb decision to refuse Charley’s help. First of all, Willy has just gotten fired from his job. You could tell he was desperate because when he approached Howard for a non-traveling job, his request for pay kept getting smaller and smaller each time Howard said no. So I couldn’t understand why Willy denied Charley when he offered him a job. Especially because he’s like 60 and it could be hard to find some good work.
It was all about Willy’s pride and dignity that he didn’t take the job from Charley. He doesn’t even have a good reason why he won’t take it beside, “I just can’t work for you, Charley.” Just because Willy is jealous of Charley, he won’t allow himself to work under Charley because that would mean that Willy has finally admitted it. Charley has offered him a good job, and he wouldn’t have to travel, which is what both Willy and Linda really want. Plus, Willy is going to be making about 50 dollars a week, which they can live on.
This whole time that Willy has been visiting Charley, he’s been borrowing money from him. He’s taken hundreds of dollars and says he’s going to pay back because he keeps a really good account of how much he takes, but we don’t know if that will ever happen. So even though Charley has been giving Willy money anyway, Willy doesn’t want to work for it. Earlier we said that he values working hard to make a good amount of money for yourself. But Willy doesn’t want to do that at all.