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Death of a Salesman
Willy Loman is a salesman who is trying to make a happy living for him and his family to survive on. He tries but he is not the best at selling things, he tries to convince everyone that he is, but he and his family both know that he is not that great.

I don't believe that he can be considered a tragic hero because he was never a hero to begin with. You cannot be a suicidal and a hero at the same time. He has many problems that he does not address with anyone but his wife. His wife is sometimes worried about him because she found a black rubber hose that she believes is going to be used as a way for him to commit suicide. She thinks that he is suicidal because many witnesses to car accidents that he has been involved in said it looked as though he was purposely causing these crashes.

Willy is the type of person who thinks things are only going to get better rather than get worse and all throughout his career things only seem to get worse. He is......

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