WIlly Loman

Willy Loman is a man after a dream. He is chasing the American dream. He believes that if you are a good person, if you do things right and you are honest, then good things will come to you. That is what he trying to do. He hates the fact that he has not gotten the American dream. This dream that he is chasing always seems out of reach. And it seems as though it's most frustrating to him because of the principal, not because he can't handle not being rich or having everything he ever wanted. It is more about that fact that some hard working people, some good and honest people, still have bad things happen to them. Misfortune happens to those people. Willy is one of those people that misfortune has come upon. It is not that he deserves for his life to be difficult, or that he deserves bad things to happen to him, or that he doesn't deserve everything that life has to offer. He is not comfortable with what he has. Maybe he is chasing the wrong thing, or his perception of the American dream is not what it should be. He has a good life, with good kids, and a good wife. He is just not accepting of what he has. He is not a loser, he was not born or made to be a loser. He sees it this way though. His perception is off. His way of looking at things is skewed. He needs to see the positive in things around him as apposed to comparing everything to the "American dream" and picking out every thing that is not what he sees as that. His definition of success is to have everything he could ever want and more money than he knows what to do with. That is not success. It can be part of a persons success but Willy needs to change the way he sees success and stop wanting other people's lives and be happy with his own.