Willy’s job has involved literally selling himself, inflating the truth, persuasion and making promises. For a salesman, ‘reality’ is whatever sells. Always a dreamer, Willy has swallowed the myth that material success represents the pinnacle of human achievement in the greatest country of the world, the USA, where anything is possible. He is depicted by Miller as a flawed character. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Death of a Salesman has been trading in deception all his adult life in effect his livelihood has depended on it. How does Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller fit the theme of “Whose Reality?”
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