In this article, Thompson analyzes Willy Loman’s allusion to Biff being Hercules within the play. Thompson’s arguments are strong in how he uses a side-by-side parallelism in order to make his point behind the likeness of Biff and Hercules. However, Thompson ruins his argument by using incorrect details. “Hercules…[,] the revered Greek demigod” is completely wrong in the fact that Hercules is Roman whereas Heracles is Greek. This may seem miniscle, but the name is very important to the story of Heracles. Thompson even dabbles in this portion of the story of Heracles, and yet he still uses the incorrect name. This mistake may be due to how Thompson’s main source was the Roman poet, Ovid. Besides his many inaccuracies with the myth, Thompson
