Blog – Compare Willy Loman to Cora Tucker
Willy Loman and Cora Tucker are opposites, antipodes, antitheses, and polar. The most obvious difference between the two are there contrasting definitions of success. Cora Tucker's idea of success is helping black people secure positions in government as well as voicing the opinions of minorities to the government. She doesn't live in a big house, she doesn't have many material items, but she has seen so much change in her life that she feels successful for how far blacks have come in society. But she's still not content because she keeps fighting on for the rights of minorities. Willy Loman obviously is not a very content dude. His own job sucks - especially since he's getting older and traveling around is not very easy. On top of that, his kids are epic failures in his eyes. His first son, Biff, flamed out after being the star football player in high school. His other son, Happy, was still mad about being the "other son" growing up. Neither of Willy's sons are very successful by Willy's standards, while his brother Ben and his next door neighbors were very successful. So Willy kills himself, in hopes of providing a means for his sons to become successful through the life insurance money that they would receive. The oddity only continues when one considers that by Willy's standards he was probably more successful than somebody like Cora Tucker - but then we see who really was more successful.
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The ending added something extra to your blog because you were able to uncover something I had not yet thought of; the fact that Willy would consider himself more successful than Cora Tucker, even though he failed colossally. I think it all depends on how you define success. Materialistically, Willy was more successful, though he was still not very successful in that respect. Morally, Cora was immensely successful, while the most Willy ever did was offer bits of advice to the sons he considered failures.
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