Society’s Role in Willy Loman’s Demise. In Death of a Salesman, the main character, Willy Loman, embodies the confusion and frustrations of a dying generation. Through his many hardships and failures he comes to realize that he no longer has a place in society. His dreams, which were based on the old traditions of pride and nobility, have been overrun by the machine of capitalism. Thus, the tragedy of Willy Loman is ultimately …showed first 75 words of 561 total…

…showed last 75 words of 561 total…s tragedy was not so much the result of his own personality, but rather a result of the industrialization of society. The world in which Willy lived and worked was dominated by the faceless machine of capitalism. Willy could not understand the mechanisms of this machine and thus eventually became its victim. Works Cited. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literarture. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston:Bedford/St.Martin’s, 1997. 1192-1255.