Death of a Salesman

Death of a Salesman

Willy Loman is a salesman who is trying to make a happy living for him and his family to survive on. He tries but he is not the best at selling things, he tries to convince everyone that he is, but he and his family both know that he is not that great.

I don't believe that he can be considered a tragic hero because he was never a hero to begin with. You cannot be a suicidal and a hero at the same time. He has many problems that he does not address with anyone but his wife. His wife is sometimes worried about him because she found a black rubber hose that she believes is going to be used as a way for him to commit suicide. She thinks that he is suicidal because many witnesses to car accidents that he has been involved in said it looked as though he was purposely causing these crashes.

Willy is the type of person who thinks things are only going to get better rather than get worse and all throughout his career things only seem to get worse. He is definitely the type of person that holds his head up high and doesn't think the worst of things. He and his wife have the dream of living a good, rich and retired life. It doesn't seem like he is going to be living much of an easy life at all considering he loses his job after asking for an advance in pay. He still even considers himself employed after he knows he has lost his job and is being offered another. He is very proud, but in all the wrong ways. He thinks he is going to be the best salesman there ever was but he is constantly declining in his performance. He even says himself that he wishes he could outright own something before it is broken or off to the junkyard. This just proves that he is not doing very well.

He is some what depending on his boys to take up some of the slack in finances by this big deal they are working on, with out knowing if they even got the money to do it much less making the business work. Willy almost seems to go back and forth, the only person he really talks to about the things that are worrying him is his wife. She gets very worried about him as it is not to mention him worrying about losing his job and somehow paying the bills.

In conclusion to these characteristics, I do not believe that Willy falls under the category to be considered a fallen tragic hero. He does not necessarily fit the description