Willie Lowman is a character that most anyone can identify with. He has
             two sides to his life; On one side he creates an image of being
             successful, well liked, and bold. On the other side he feels old,
             unsuccessful, defeated and disliked. He maintains the successful image
             to comfort his wife and friends. This veil of success becomes thinner
             and thinner until he lingers between fantasy and reality of the cruel
             world, often changing back and forth in the course of a conversation.
             The core of Willie^s slow painful demise into nothingness is based upon
             his beliefs. Willie thinks that success is not what you know, but who
             he knows and how well he is liked. These beliefs he instills in his
             sons, who find themselves adrift and meaningless just like their
             father. In addition Willie sees the world changing, and his own
             inability to change with it, will seal his fate. He misses the open
             land and the smell of flowers in the summer, the pollution and high
             rise apartments add to Wil! lies dismal existence. An example of
             Willies shift from fantasy to reality is during his conversation with
             his wife about the Chevy. He thinks the car is fantastic, the best ever
             built. Later he and his wife discuss some bills that were paid, and
             when told about the bill to get the Chevy^s carburetor fixed, he says
             that they ought to prohibit the manufacture of the car.
             Willie Lowman is finding himself less and less capable. He dreams of
             making it big and has visions of Uncle Ben who gives him advice on how
             to get rich, but never the kind of advice Willie wants to hear. Willie
             is concerned about his image. He is a great showman who can brag and
             flaunt like the best of them, and as witness to the hard truth of his
             failure he continues to weave fairy tales and live in fantasy. Willie
             wants his sons to be better off and more successful than him, but he
             has already corrupted them, and they too claim achievements well ...