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Death of a Not-so-common Man

In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller attempted to point up the idea that tragedy doesn’t need to be concerned with characters of great magnitude; instead, he proposed that the protagonist could be an ordinary person, an “every-day-man�. As explained in Millers’ essay “Tragedy and the Common Man,� he sets out the pattern for his own idea of a tragedy and the tragic hero. It becomes evident that in Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is not the “common man� that Miller was determined to create. It will be argued here that, while Death of a Salesman is a tragedy, it is not a tragedy of a common man, but rather, a tragedy of a character apart from the rest of humanity.

Willy Lomans’ fear is that he wants to be viewed as a good, decent human being. He wants to believe that he's a well-liked, decent person, who doesn’t make mistakes, but the truth is that he does make mistakes, many that haunt him. Willy does not consider......

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