Similarities Between A Streetcar Named Desire And Death Of A Salesman

The play A Streetcar named desire, is written by Tennessee Williams with the incorporation of Arthur Miller, who wrote the introduction of the play. A few years later, Arthur Miller wrote Death of a Salesman. Both plays have similarities since they were published a few years after World War II. Almost all of the characters from both plays have some type of a connection due to the roles they play. Blanche and Willy have this desperation and need for money, and living the life they dream of. Stella and Linda are both housewives, who don’t contribute to bringing money home. Stanley, Biff, and Happy live under the high expectations of others, feel the pressure to be someone of wealth, someone in life. The economic class status to the main character, Blanche, is extremely important in order to earn respect from others and for

The main character in A Streetcar named desire, Blanche, comes from living in a plantation. “A great big place with white columns” says Eunice (9). Plantations were owned by people of money, wealthy family’s. When she arrives to Elysian Fields, she couldn’t think that her sister really lives in an area like that. “The section is poor but, unlike corresponding sections in other American cities, it has a raffish charm” (3). For Blanche going from a plantation to a poor town, was very hard to accept, but it seems that Blanche has lost everything back home. Stella never told Blanche what conditions she lived in, maybe Stella felt embarrassed of where she lives now. What makes Blanches expectations very ironic is that in Greek mythology “Elysian Fields,” which is where her sister lives, means any place or state of perfect happiness; paradise and that of course, was nothing compared to what it appears in the eye of Blanche when she first arrives. Blanche believes that since Stella left Belle Reve to have a better life, then Stella should be living in a place similar or better than