Arthur Miller and Willy Loman's opinions about success

Willy Loman believes that if you have a good personality, you’re attractive, and you’re well-liked, then that’s all you need to be successful. Therefore, according to Willy Loman, indivudual opportunity definitely exists if you have all of these things. However, if you don’t have any of these things, then individual opportunity is not feasible. I think this is because of his salesman background. All Willy Loman knows, is sales, and how to sell. All of what he says about what it takes to be successful is true- if you’re a salesman. People will want to buy things from you if they like you, other people like you, and you are a friendly looking fellow. That is the general nature of humans. For a salesman, that is really all you need to be successful.
Arthur Miller doesn’t believe that a good personality, attractiveness, and being well-liked is all you need for success. He shows this through his character, Biff. Biff is an attractive, well-liked man with a good personality, however he was not successful. I believe that Miller was conveying the typical American ideal thought of individual opportunity in the U.S. through Willy Loman, and proving the truth of it being incorrect through his example with Biff. I also think it is key that Miller made Willy Loman an insane man. Miller thinks that it is an absolutely radical idea to believe in individual opportunity being so possible in America. I think that the reason Miller made Biff emphasize his beliefs about individual opportunity so much is because that’s what the government says, and that’s what America is founded on. It seems to me that Miller made Willy Loman the American idealist for indivudial opportunity, and Biff the proof that it isn’t true.