realistic?

Throughout this play, there were aspects of both realism and unrealism. The lives of the characters and some of their experience can be seen as real, while the flashbacks and visuals experienced by Willy are not realistic at all. The Loman family in the flashbacks to when the boys were in high school can be compared to real life families at that time in history. They had a father who worked, a mother who stayed at home and took care of the house, and two boys who liked to be boys and play sports. Even when Happy and Biff left after high school, the family can still be seen as normal. Biff and Willy had their problems, and were unable to sort them out. Problems like that exist in reality.
The unrealistic parts of the play were when Ben would appear to Willy at parts in the play. Willy had no idea that Ben was just an imaginary character and would carry on a conversation out loud with him even when there were people around. I guess the unrealistic parts were there scenes with Willy's messed up mind that kept trying to live in the past.