Death of a Salesman is an extraordinary work in which there is neither a true hero nor a true devil. Willy serves as both a tragic hero and a sad martyr, but not a pathetic person. Instead, it is the realization of years of hard work, years of dedication, and years of boring loneliness in American life. As such, he has built so many things in his mind, so many years of expectations and so many decades of disappointments. There is no version of Willy Loman that is truly real, and no version of Willy Loman that will ever be truly free from the shame and trappings of the life he tried to build for himself. For Arthur Miller the death of Willy Loman, the death of the salesman, is the tragic death of all those who believe. It is the death of the American dream and the death of the perfect life we all long to achieve. The American dream is no longer what we make of it; instead, it's what it makes of
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