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Connections with Streetcar

Deception/ avoiding reality
 * Streetcar: Blanche hides age, drinking habits, appearance
 * DoS: Willy lies about own success, borrows money, avoid reality through living in constant flashbacks and hallucinations

Increasing deterioration
 * Streetcar: Blanche's appearance and mental state, the setting (old house)
 * DoS: Willy's physical and mental state

Ageing and nostalgia
 * Streetcar: Blanche wants to remain young
 * DoS: Willy reminiscing the past (with family, relatives, and past glories)

Role of women
 * Stella and Linda both supporting to their husband, tries to hold family and relationships together.
 * Have little control over family

Role of men
 * More power and control over family
 * "Plays" with women: Stanley rapes Blanche, Willy had affair, Biff and Happy have only physical relationships

Forbidden relationships
 * Streetcar: Blanche and the student
 * DoS: Willy and the Other Woman

Character vs Society
 * Streetcar: Blanche is not accepted by others because of her past
 * DoS: Willy tries to prove himself to those who doubt his abilities

Main characters mentally unstable
 * Streetcar: Blanche is taken to mental hospital
 * DoS: WIlly shows signs of mental deterioration, talks to himself, imaginations

Works hard but doesn't get desired result
 * Streetcar: Blanche attempts to find a path for herself, but does not succeed, and becomes crazy
 * DoS: Willy tries to prove himself, but in the end loses his job