Character Sketch

Lydia is Frank's wife. She is a charming, very pretty woman of twenty-seven, described by Miller as a "robust laughing girl." Before George went off to war, she was his girlfriend; when he did not return home after his father was imprisoned, she married Frank, a dull alternative. When George does come to confront the Kellers with his father's accusations, he is reminded of everything he lost. He also knows that Lydia deserved better than she got.