Willy Loman is the cause of his own misfortune Many characters in literature are the cause of their own misfortune. In the play Death of a Salesman by author Miller, Willy Loman is responsible for his misfortune as well as the misfortune of his two sons Happy and Biff. Willy creates his own small world in which he is the boss, everything goes around him, nothing will change and nothing will go wrong. But by thinking this way Willy causes his own misfortune. Willy brags to his boys that he is well liked, that he is a “big man”, but in reality he is not. He says that he went to Providence, met the Mayor, had coffee with him. Willy says: “And they know me, boys, they know me up and down New England” (Death of a Salesman 30). This comment illustrates how Willy shows off in front of his sons. He says he can park his car in any street in....

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