He even dies in quest of his dream, which in itself achieves tragic status. .
While some may view Willy as an all-together pathetic old man with absurd pretensions, Miller must see his character as a man aiming high and agonizing deeply. Willy Loman is a tragic hero who reflects the essence of a man's intent to claiming his whole due as a personality with struggle and without reservation demonstrating the indestructible will of man to achieve his humanity.
Although Death of a Salesman doesn't follow the traditional definition of a tragedy, centuries later it allows readers to know that tragedies still do exist. After hundreds of years of classical masterpieces from Shakespeare and Sophocles, "it is time that we who are without kings, took up this bright thread of our history and followed it to the only place it can possibly lead in our time-the heart and spirit of the average man." Although pitiful to any spectator, Willy Loman represents every man living a life of quiet desperation and in that sense is therefore greater than any one man.
Realism in Death of a Salesman can be defined as an attempt to reproduce the surface appearance of the life of normal people in everyday situations. Basically realism is a situation that normal people can relate to based on their own experiences. Realism is extremely prevalent in the play Death of a Salesman. The characters in the play all have real world problems. Lack of money is one of the problems, which is a problem for many people. There are also many conflicts within the family; the biggest is over what success is; money and power or happiness. Willy Loman also wants his children to have a better life than he has and tries to do everything he can so they will have a better life, including ending his own.
One realistic situation that many people can relate to is money problems. Money is one of the main problems that Willy Loman had throughout the play.