Who Is Willy Loman A Hero

A Modern American’s Tragedy
Death of a Salesman, by Arthur Miller, a play performed in 1949. Willy Loman, the protagonist, always tried to achieve his American dream. Biff, Willy’s oldest son, received most of love from his father and was hoped to be successful. However, Biff was not making anything to be successful. Happy, Willy’s youngest son, also lost the way finding his self and being successful. The play took place at time that Biff went back home after years far away from family; since then, the tragedy of the Loman’s started. Willy was fired; Biff realized he was lost his self in life. At the end of the play, Willy committed suicide and thought that it was a good way to resolve his family problem, actually Biff’s problems. Even though Willy committed suicide, the author and audiences still consider him as a hero. According to Aristotle, Willy is considered as a tragic hero, the hero in the plays has fatal flaws, and the hero’s flaws caused his downfall. The play was performed and left the pity and fear in the audiences. Moreover, according to the author, the dash of hope in the audiences’
The hero in the play had fatal flaws that caused his downfall. Because of the wrong definition of success, fact’s denial, jealousy and stubbornness, Willy was failed in his life and committed suicide. The play evoked the pity and fear in audiences afterward. In addition, there were hopes in the play that audiences could feel but all of them get dashed because of the play’s parameter. Even Willy Loman already passed away, the image of a tragic hero still stay in his family’s mind and especially in the audience’s. “So Miller does offer us a way to go back to those familiar or less familiar ideas he presents in his play—by his near-faultless blending of the social, political, moral, and personal questions presented directly or indirectly through his characters.” (Robert A.