Discuss the ways in which the main characters respond to change in at least two of the literary works you read. (Things Fall Apart & Death of A Salesman)

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Discuss the ways in which the main characters respond to change in at least two of the literary works you read.

The way the main characters of the books 'Death of a Salesman' by Arthur Miller and 'Things Fall Apart' by Chinua Achebe respond to change is extremely similar. 'Death of a Salesman' is set in New York, in the late 1940's. It is about Willy Loman, a salesman in his late 60s, his wife Linda and his two sons Biff and Happy. Willy Loman is a thorough believer of the concept of the American Dream, but he holds on to it so tightly that everything in his life falls apart. He wished so much for his son Biff to be successful, but when Biff finds Willy cheating on his mother, he himself loses all faith and now, in his early thirties, he has no wife or children and jumps from one job to the next. In the end, Willy commits suicide. "Things Fall Apart" is set in present-day Nigeria in the late 19th century, and it is about Okonkwo, who has risen from nothing to a very high position. He is afraid of being like his father,