Dramatic Irony Of Willy Loman

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Willy Loman made himself seems as a salesman of power, a well like and self attractive man to his family when he return from every trip he took. However, as the play continues the audience founds out the truth that he isn’t what he says. Instead of being man of power, he was a man that people really didn’t care about. He was just a regular salesman. This an example of dramatic irony because his family believes all that Willy says he is, but the audience knows the ironic truth of what he really is. Another example of dramatic irony is that Willy is going to died somehow in the play. The audience knows that Willy the salesman is going to die due to the title of the story, but the characters in the play have no knowledge that Willy is going to

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