Death of a Salesman - 2

"Don't say those things to him!  Enough to be happy right here, right now."  (II, pg. 1594)

Willy is most likely the protagonist in this play because the audience sees all the action in his perspective.  The audience sees the daydreams, flashbacks, and Willy talking to himself because his character allows them to see that.  In the daydreams, Willy acted as if Ben, his dead brother, was there and allowed Ben to control what he what going to do.  The antagonistic force in this case would be his career because it is trying to take him away from his family.  Jobs try to get him to move away from his family, but Linda refuses for him to accept these jobs.  If Biff is the protagonist, then the antagonist is not the same.  The antagonistic force would then be his lack of success in his life.  When he failed the math class, that forced him to be ineligible for graduation and ruined his life's goals.