It is known that tragedy is one of the most popular genres in literature. He always combines a story about human suffering with a certain sense of audience satisfaction. The roots of the tragedy are linked to ancient Greece. A Greek tragedy is a sad story, depicting a character with a tragic flaw that leads to his downfall. Furthermore, in traditional tragedy, the main character loses high authority and is often predetermined by fate, while the audience experiences catharsis (Bloom 2). Arthur Miller's play Death of a Salesman is considered a tragedy because this literary work has some of the main characteristics of the tragic genre. In this play, the main character Willy Loman possesses traits and behaviors that lead to his downfall and the audience experiences catharsis. Willy Loman, as a true tragic hero, comes to the decision to commit suicide due to his family's serious financial problems (Phelps 79). This play has already been criticized by numerous literary critics who represented different opinions on the plot of the book. The main objective of this article is to critically evaluate the work Death of a Salesman, written by the well-known American writer Arthur Miller, paying particular attention to the tragedy characteristics of the work. In the work Death of a Salesman, the author investigates human nature and represents his main character as a person whose dissatisfaction with his life leads to his tragic end. The plot of this literary work is quite simple. The show consists of two acts. In the first act, Willy Loman, the main character of Miller's play, returns home from New York. It turned out that his goal was to travel to Boston, but he failed to achieve this goal and returned home. The author of the play states that Willy's personal dissatisfaction is the result of the tension in the interpersonal relationships between him, his wife Linda and their two sons Biff and Happy. The first act of the show focuses on issues such as Willy Loman's emotional instability due to his personal dissatisfaction, Biff's frustration, and the family's financial problems. Furthermore, the author represents his story in such a way that Willy's emotional instability leads to tension in the relationships between Willy and Biff, who is also unhappy due to his professional failure. Willy says, “The man knew what he wanted and he went and got it! He entered a jungle and came out, at the age of twenty-one, and he is rich!” (Miller 31).