at all. The play argues that Willy's enemy is the money-centered system by which he defines his self-worth, but it makes a project of not interrogating a personal value system that is "way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a shoeshine" (133), as if moral structures need not have invaded internal consciousness since the morality of bourgeois culture is so corrupt.
Obviously Willy's lack of moral insight can be interpreted as a tragic flaw. But it is hard to see how a man of such superficial insight could undertake self-realization, let alone transcendence. Understanding that he is worth more dead than alive does not capture the moral-ethical insight of tragic sensibili
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