Death of a Salesman compared to The Glass Menagerie

There are many similarities between these two plays. Most obviouse is the memory aspect of the play. However it is slightly different because the Glass Menagerie is a memory as its entirety while Death of a Salesman is real-time with the influence of Willy's memory. The characters are somewhat similar. The parents are overbearing on their children and they are treated like they are much younger than they actually are. The parents mistakes in the past are effecting how they treat their children now. THe setting of the two plays are aslo very similar. There is a transparent fourth wall that the light shines through in both plays. The family's live in apartments. Even though neither of these plays are musicals, they both have a music aspect to them; the flute and the glass menagerie song. This music adds to symbolic meaning in the plays. The similarities in the two plays are very intersting and I think it will be even more intersting to see what a Raison in the Sun has that is similar to the two.