Modern domestic tragedies began in the late 19th century and feature ordinary people as heroes/anti-heroes unlike Greek tragedies where the protagonist was high-ranking or noble birth. Arthur Miller's “Death of a Salesman” is a classic example of this and features the anti-hero Willy who shows the audience how his perfect family lifestyle has fallen apart contributing to the disorder of his world which increases as his mind deteriorates slowly. plays Willy who strives to live the American dream; to have a better, richer and happier life. He is obsessed with materialism and thinks that acquiring possessions will make him and his family happy. When Linda tries to darn her socks, Willy tells her "I won't let you darn socks in this house."¹ This shows how he strives to bring the American Dream home and how much he wants the rest of the family to believe in his dreams as well. It also shows how guilty and remorseful he feels about his affair with "the woman" to whom he gave new pairs of socks that he was supposed to save for his ever faithful wife at home. During the show the audience learns how important Willy wants to defend his pride and morals. He teaches Biff and Happy that it is charisma and not brains that make them successful. In his flashbacks he tells them that “the man who makes his appearance in the business world, the man who creates personal interest, is the man who makes a career”² and despises Bernard who gets high marks. Being a salesman, he believed he was well-liked and esteemed in society and dedicated his life to it. As a result, when Howard fires him from the company, his pride is ruined and he feels like he has let his family down "(a... middle of paper... salespeople from all over the world will be featured" country and in this way he can prove to Biff and his family that he was a great man to be proud of. “I am known…and he will see it with his own eyes once and for all”¹³. However, no one except his family and the neighbors of the next door, Charley, who Willy described as his "one friend", and Bernard, arrive and both Biff and Happy see that Willy has taken the coward's path as Ben had suggested Willy's life was a lie as Linda says "there's more of him on that porch than all the sales "¹⁴ Although all these points are evident in his funeral, the tragedy is also represented in the fact that Happy decides to accept Willy's job as a salesman despite having driven Willy to such desperation. Happy desperately tries to help Willy as he never allowed it to do with his life as his attention was focused on Biff.