I read a lot of reviews about this play, where the reviewers think of this story as a tragedy of the society. However I think of it more as a lesson of adapting to the society. The world changes and people change with it, and if one does not have the courage to adapt or even to face the reality, he is doomed of failure. One cannot blame Willy Loman's failure to the cruelty of the society when he is the one who cheated on his wife, indulged his kid of theft and mocked away good influence from his boys. Willy Loman is the victim of his own distorted world view. He lived in a house of cards constructed with "shoeshines and a smile", which collapsed when people stopped smiling back. He buried himself alive, and the rest of the world just watched.