lly in his lifetime uses his joyous memories as a drug to cope with the misfortunes of the present. The way he overuses his vivid imagination is sad because the only thing it is good for is enabling Willy to go through one more day of his piteous life, full of bitterness, confusion, depression, false hopefulness, and a feeling of love which he is trying very hard to express to his sons who seem reluctant to accept it....