Cora Tucker vs. Willy Loman

Cora Tucker was a woman who constantly valued her community and how others around her were treated. She did not care much for the regular version of the materialistic American Dream and instead focused on a view that, if she can help others and change the world in some small way, then she was successful. She never reached any real materialistic success and lived in a small house by the railroad tracks that shook when the train went by but was still a very successful person. This goes directly against the beliefs of Willy Loman, who believes staunchly in the materialistic American Dream and thinks that the American Dream can be achieved with a "smile and a shoeshine." However, Willy lives in a delusional world and ignores his life as it crumbles around him. The end result is his suicide and he ends his life without achieving materialistic or spiritual/personal success.