The unattainable dream

Cora Tucker is a black woman, civil rights activist, in a Southern community that is resistant to change and her ideas. Willy Loman is a man with high hopes for himself and his family and he cant attain them because he doesn’t have a real sense of reality. Tucker does have this sense of reality and knows that she can’t change the town in a day. She knows she can only do it a little at a time. Willy, thinks that he can just get everything done in life by being well liked. He thinks that if he is well liked everything else will fall into place and he will be successful as he once was in the past.

The reason that Tucker succeeds in life is because she sets attainable goals. She does one little thing at a time and knows that things just don’t happen overnight. She sets each goal and creates a plan to get it done, and then moves onto the next one. Willy, on the other hand, is not like this and has only one goal in life to be well liked. He can never attain this goal of being well liked and success because it is bigger than him. Because he can’t attain this dream he eventually cracks and can’t take it anymore. If he would have set attainable goals, that might not have happened.