In Centola’s article, he asserts that Willy is only a salesman in order to bolster how he and others veiw him. This is a valid assertion, considering how often Willy uses the idea of how well-liked someone is as a way to measure success. Willy constantly claims that he is a very well-liked person and thus it would make sense for him to become a salesman to become more popular and more known. Centola makes the point that Willy “wants to sell himself, more than any specific product.” This would also be a correct claim, given that when Willy imagined his own funeral, he thought that hundreds would come from states all over the country. Willy seeing this many people coming to his own funeral shows the degree of success to which he sold himself
