Indeed, there is a solid link between Willy’s understanding of success and attainment with his narcissistic behavior. Loman exhibits traits such as grandiosity, pride, over confidence and denial of feelings. His relationships with the other characters reveal his general lack of compassion and manipulation of others. He further suggests that his concept of success in relation to the American Dream can be viewed as narcissistic. Freud suggested that people are born without a sense of themselves as individuals, or ego. The ego progresses throughout infancy and the early parts of childhood, one when the outside world, usually in the form of parental controls and expectations, intruded upon primary narcissism, teaching the individual about the nature
