Willy's unnending struggle for wealth forces the goodness of Humanity to depleat from the Loman family.

In today's capitalistic world, society is lead to believe that fame and fortune are the most desirable rewards life can offer. People so desperately wish to have the life of fame that they will sacrifice their essence to achieve it. In Death of a Salesman, Arthur Miller uses the spiritualistic downfall of the Loman family to emphasize the burdens that American society suffers, due to its unending, and almost unreachable desire for wealth and power, …

…is less of a human if they wish to drive the fancy car, or live in the big house. All that matters is how the wealth was accumulated, and at what price. To have lost all that is good and decent just to climb a few steps of the economic ladder, does make someone less human, because it is that goodness inside us all that assures our humanity, without it life is not worth living.