Willy was incapable of accepting his reality. Willy built his life around his illusions and his illusions replaced his reality. For him, it was a difficult concept to accept. Whenever reality slipped through, Willy ran to his flashbacks; his flashbacks indicated how he was losing his grip on reality. The worse Willy’s reality got, the faster he ran to his flashbacks and the tighter his grip on his illusions became.
Willy’s main problem in the play was his blindness of his reality. Consequently, his life was going