Overview
Character Name
Uncle Ben
Show
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Mature Adult
Role Size
Supporting
Dramatic Function
Foil, Mentor/Guide
Relationships
Voice
Non-singer
Time & Place
1930s, 1940s, New York
Analysis
Uncle Ben exists entirely as a spectral projection of Willy’s memory and regret—a mythical embodiment of ruthless, frontier-style fortune that Willy failed to seize when he turned down his offer of a job in Alaska. Cloaked in an aura of colonial wealth and diamond mines,
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