"Death of a Salesman" by Arthur Miller is about a salesman named Willy who fails to understand how to be successful. He often talks about trying to be more successful in the business world, but he never seems to go through with what he says. "Willy Loman, traveling salesman, is driven to suicide because success American-style is all about nakedly marketing oneself"(Klinghoffer,1). He is a weak character with many flaws. This is why I believe that he is just a pathetic character and undeserving of the title tragic character.
             Willy Loman is a failing salesman in his sixties, who returns home from a sales trip that he could not finish. He is tired of living on the road constantly, driving from town to town trying to sell his products. He often seems to be thinking about the past, and about how everything that he has ever wanted has crashed down around him. He no longer is getting paid by the hour by his business. He only works on straight commission. "He was never a great salesman and had no contacts anywhere"(Vangie, 1). Willy has two grown boys, Biff and Happy (Hap). Willy thinks that Biff would be a success as a salesman. "He is primarily concerned about the once magnificent young football star, who at thirty-four drifts from one temporary ranch job to the next"(Willy Loman-A Character Sketch, 1). Hap does not seem to enjoy his job at all. He states that he doesn't "know what the hell [he] is working for"(1408), and that he is still "lonely"(1408) even though he has his "own apartment, a car, and plenty of women"(1408). He seems to be trying to get his father's attention and respect, by being like his father, but his father is only giving attention to Biff and how Biff should live his life. Willy then has a flashback to when Biff and Hap were in high school, when Biff was the captain of the football team. Biff steals a football from the locker room, and when his father finds out about it, his father tells him to "return"(1...