Page 44-Blog Death of A Salesmen

I think that Willy says things to Charlie because he needs his pride. Throughout the whole play Willy has had to deal with different people always being better than him. (Ben, Charlie ect.) and he says things like "A man who cannot handle tools is not a man" to help him feel better about himself. Willy takes things too personally. He gets insulted when people give him money and he gets insulted when people try to help him and he got insulted when Charlie gave offered him a job. Although, He didn't get insulted when Ben offered a job he did say that he had a perfectly fine job here even though he knew that things weren't turning out so great. He didn't want Ben or anybody to think he wasn't good enough or manly enough. As I said he needs his pride because, it's the only thing he has left. He lost his job, his favorite son and, because of the mistakes his made his family is in the hole financially.He needs to defend himself by trying to make people feel bad and calling people "Disgusting". Ultimately Willy is jealous of his brother that's why he says things to him but, also his pride is in the way of right thinking.