... need to recognize his personal responsibilities while wrestling with a multitude of societal injustices. Since the battle is won within ourselves, characters like Willy Loman emerged as a symbolic reminder of the tragedies destined to us who fail to explore and re-evaluate our personal responsibilities to overcome the injustices society ... forces upon us. Willy Loman is a 60 year traveling salesman who was employed by the Wagner firm for 34 years. He was a lowly salesman, or the "low ... depths of his own subconscious, leading to the resurrection his dead brother, Ben. Ben was the epi...

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... according to Arthur Miller. He exhibits the tragedy of the "common man" in today's modern American society where nobility does not prevail in the least. Despite possessing "high-bred character," Willy Loman can be considered a tragic hero like Macbeth or Oedipus because he expierienced a tragic fall as well. The point of the tragic hero being so noble and of high rank is ... so that the audience can feel great sympathy for the hero because they fell from such a high place in life, exaggerating their failure. Willy Loman proves to also to create sympathy within the audience much like the...

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