Both famous American plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire can be efficiently compared based on their characters, settings, multiple themes , and many more common aspects. Along with differences there are great amounts of similarities that relate the plays each other.
The settings of the plays assist in distributing demographic norms and significance in each play which lead them to be both compared and contrasted to one another. A suburban, poverty stricken neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for A Streetcar Named Desire where as the setting for Death of a Salesman is mainly set in Brooklyn. These two settings both contain similarities and differences when it comes to the personalities, wealth, and relationships between the characters. The Lowman and Kowalski family are …show more content…
A need for distance and separation is emphasized, such as Stanley wanting to play poker or go bowling with his clique or Willy continuously traveling for work and having an affair on his wife because at home he wasn’t receiving the attention that he yearned for. As well as similar living arrangements, the 1940’s was the setting for Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, who put a weight on the back of gender roles. Women stayed at home while the men worked, that was the norm of early 20th century society. However, female subordination and male domination is not portrayed in both plays. Stan worked as Stella stayed home and tended to the house . Linda tended to the house as well while Willy was gone, but physical abuse towards the female spouse did not occur in Death of a Salesman as it did in A Streetcar Named Desire. As the readers examined both plays, there was no surprise that physical abuse was present in Streetcar because the era which the play took place is somewhat well known for showing a woman “who’s boss.” Rather than physically abusing his wife Willy decided to cheat on her instead which also was not a surprise to
The settings of the plays assist in distributing demographic norms and significance in each play which lead them to be both compared and contrasted to one another. A suburban, poverty stricken neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana is the setting for A Streetcar Named Desire where as the setting for Death of a Salesman is mainly set in Brooklyn. These two settings both contain similarities and differences when it comes to the personalities, wealth, and relationships between the characters. The Lowman and Kowalski family are …show more content…
A need for distance and separation is emphasized, such as Stanley wanting to play poker or go bowling with his clique or Willy continuously traveling for work and having an affair on his wife because at home he wasn’t receiving the attention that he yearned for. As well as similar living arrangements, the 1940’s was the setting for Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, who put a weight on the back of gender roles. Women stayed at home while the men worked, that was the norm of early 20th century society. However, female subordination and male domination is not portrayed in both plays. Stan worked as Stella stayed home and tended to the house . Linda tended to the house as well while Willy was gone, but physical abuse towards the female spouse did not occur in Death of a Salesman as it did in A Streetcar Named Desire. As the readers examined both plays, there was no surprise that physical abuse was present in Streetcar because the era which the play took place is somewhat well known for showing a woman “who’s boss.” Rather than physically abusing his wife Willy decided to cheat on her instead which also was not a surprise to