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Call to Greatness

The main point of the play is the idea of greatness. Willy longs to achieve great things as a salesman and to be remembered after his death, and tries to instill this hope in both of his sons. Where Willy, Happy and Biff all continue to fail, Ben, Charley, and Bernard succeeded. Willy is unable to see through his own delusion of the "American Dream", which he perceives as the ability to become "great" by obtaining mass wealth without any effort and to leave for a while and when you come back, royalty and greatness.
By playing certain roles his whole life for everyone around him, he never had to face the one the one person who could make him feel like a failure, himself. By telling people he is a winner and a great salesman, he not only made others believe it but he started to believe it as well. By telling Biff and Happy tales from when he was younger making sales all over New England instilled a false sense of hope in those boys. Happy being the younger......

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