This question is missing the excerpt. I've found it online. It is the following:
LINDA: Forgive me, dear. I can't cry. I don't know what it is, but I can't cry. I don't understand it. Why did you ever do that? Help me, Willy, I can't cry. It seems to me that you're just on another trip. I keep expecting you. Willy, dear, I can't cry. Why did you do it? I search and search and I search, and I can't understand it, Willy. I made the last payment on the house today. Today, dear. And there'll be nobody home. A sob rises in her throat. We're free and clear. Sobbing more fully, released: We're free. BIFF comes slowly toward her. We're free ... We're free ... BIFF lifts her to her feet and moves out up right with her in his arms. LINDA sobs quietly. BERNARD and CHARLEY come together and follow them, followed by HAPPY. Only the music of the flute is left on the darkening stage as over the house the hard towers of the apartment buildings rise into sharp focus, and
The Curtain Falls
Linda's closing remarks incorporate:
A. soliloquy.
Explanation:
A soliloquy is a device commonly used in plays. Its purpose is to have characters make their thoughts known to the audience by speaking out loud when they are alone or regardless of any hearers. Therefore, a soliloquy usually consists of a series of ideas, questions, or remarks, often connected in a way that mimics our thoughts. That is what we have in Linda's remarks. She is speaking regardless of whoever is hearing. In this case, she does have an audience - her dead husband. In a way, she is talking to him but, since he cannot hear her, she ends up talking to herself. Her questions will go unanswered.
