In post-Depression America, the United States faced internal battles in political ideologies between capitalists and Marxists, which are at the heart of the play by Arthur Miller Death of a Salesman. According to Helge Normann Nilsen, author of “From Honors At Dawn to Death of a Salesman: Marxism and the Early Plays of Arthur Miller,” the Great Depression had a profound impact on the formation of Arthur Miller's political identity: “The Great Depression it created in him a lasting and traumatic impression of the devastating power of economic forces in shaping people's lives” (146). This lasting effect on Miller is embodied in the character of Willy Loman, an unsuccessful salesman whose life collapses under the strain of his competition for wealth, demonstrated by Nilsen when he states that the guilt lies in "impairment of conscience and sanity [Willy's] by intolerable economic pressures” (155). Because of his focus on material success, which Marxists see as a critical flaw in capitalism, Willy loses his sanity by fighting corruption within himself and in the system of American free market. I believe, however, that while Miller embraced and promoted Marxist values ​​and that the messages in Death of a Salesman were directed at capitalists, Miller was not condemning all aspects of capitalism politically biased, Miller's portrayal of Charley as a generous and kind man contradicts the idea that Death of a Salesman is purely Marxist propaganda. Miller, therefore, was not denouncing capitalism, but instead called for reforms within the existing system. The Great Depression can undoubtedly be attributed to the greed of a society absorbed in achieving wealth in the early 20th century. Zero... half of paper... Salesman?" Koon 34-40. Koon, Helene Wichkam, ed. Twentieth-Century Interpretations of the Death of a Salesman. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1983. Print.Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. Eds. Alison Booth and Kelly J. Mays. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2128-2193. Miller, Arthur Miller on America (2003): 13-16. EBSCO. Network. 8 February 2013.Nilsen, Helge Normann. "From Honors at Dawn to the Death of a Salesman: Marxism and the Early Works of Arthur Miller." , pp. 146-156. January 27, 2013. Sell, Mike. "Arthur Miller and the Drama of American Liberalism." Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005. 23-30. Print.Welland, Dennis. “Death of a Salesman.” 21-24.