Who Is Willy A Hero

Willy Loman is responsible for deterioration of his world. Willy finds someone to look up too, a hero of sorts, and tries to become the hero in his own life. Willy tries to become a very successful businessman but he is not good with people, he is not a very good salesman and in the end chooses the wrong career. Willy often makes things up because he cannot face the truth that in life he has not accomplished as much as he had hoped and planned. Willy's undoing is brought about by his unreal dreams, his ego, his choice of career and his failure to manage life's problems.

When he was young, Willy noticed an 80 year old salesman who worked and was very successful. The old salesman was his own boss, he made his own orders and everyone listen to
Willy teaches his children not to take orders from anyone. He believes in doing so Biff, Happy and himself will gain success, but it is in fact a major contribution to Willies failure. Willy did not become important in the field of retail but thinks of himself as a big shot.Willy believes that because of his status as a so called ”big shit” must have made people angry because he is not liked by many
Willy can and has fixed up his house with ease over the years and his family appreciates the things he does for the house and for them as a family. Willy is better suited at a manual job than being a salesman. In the book his children state that he puts more work in the house than he ever did at work. This isn't the case for Willy paid off the house because of his job but in a way it is true because he put his whole life into being something he wasn't good at, a salesman, and if had just all that effort into being a carpenter he probably would have accomplished a lot more than just paying off his home. Manual labour brought Willy happiness and joy but he rejected it in his pursuit of the American Dream.

Willy makes things up or changes stories and things that have happened to him because his life so uninteresting. He is not doing anything or going anywhere in life and this depresses him. He often puts off problems, saying that he’ll deal with them in the morning. When he wakes up he intentionally disregarded all his problems and goes about his day like nothing is wrong. These problems accumulate until the metaphorique dam bursts and Willy loses control. He ends up taking his own life because of the overwhelming amount of problems that linger in his