Is Willy A Tragic Hero

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Willy is a tragic hero because throughout the play he showed his judgment error because of his hamartia. His hamartia, which is weakness to see his failure in life, caused him to make error by seeing delusions. This delusions, which is the result made by his desire to escape and forget, began to make him fall into pieces as he began to slip into a dream instead of holding onto the reality. He would try to apply every hopes and dreams into his mental world, trying to save what little he have left.
Throughout the play, people around Willy notice that he starts to submerge into delusions. Especially Linda, she saw that the difficulty in physical world was influencing his mental world. In order to prevent Willy from fading away, she would try

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