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Blanche De Bois versus Willy Loman
Blanche Du Boise is a character in Tennesse‘s fictional plain by the title a street car named desire while Willy Loman is a fictional character in Arthurs miller play; death of a sales man. Blanche in the play street car named desire is an extremely complicated character who appears to have internal conflicts throughout the play. She appears to be from the upper class society as her name suggests and upon meeting her she appears cultured and sophisticated. Her dressing suggests purity and innocence but it doesn’t take long to realize she is pretending. Her attempt to cover up her drinking problem and promiscuous behavior all foreshadow her eventual destruction of her character. On the other hand Willy Loman is presented as a very simple man as the writer wants him to appear as a common man. His family background is not well known to him as we see he only has one memory of his father; when he was a toddler and was listening to him play the flute. His brother left him when he was three and only visited twice, while his mother died a long time ago.
Blanche is a pretender.wen we meet her at the start of the story, she is dressed in white, a symbol of purity and d innocence. She is seen as a delicate, refined, and sensitive. She is cultured and intelligent. One when she found her young husband in a compromising situation with an elderly woman and later they went for a dance she tells him that he is disgusting. This leads to him committing suicide. She pretends to be a good woman but she is not good. She is hiding her true nature. This is why she flirters with Stanley, creating an illusion of what she are not. Throughout the episodes she plays the role of the ideal person she would like to be. In her pretence she makes very bad mistakes. First it leads to her young husband committing suicide. He does this because she told him he was disgusting to her ye4t we see her having promiscuous behaviors, worse than the husband. In creating an illusion of who she is, she fails with Stanley, because she attempts to be what she thinks a lady should be rather than being frank, open, and honest as Stanley would have liked.
She is promiscuous. Following her husband s death she starts giving herself to other men for other reasons. She feels that she failed her husband and that’s why she does this. She feels that intimacies with strangers are what seemed to fill her empty words but it’s clear that no one fills her emptiness (Schechner 7).
On the other hand, Miller explains that we find Willy Loman .he is brought out as a bad example to his children (67). He gives them a very bad advice. He tells them to be careful with girls and not to make any promises to them. This attitude is well adopted by the sons. Biff becomes too rough with girls and happy grows up to be a womanizer. Happy promises that he will marry but this is just but a lie. Willy also condones behavior of stealing. Instead of disciplining his son when he swipes a ball from his coaches room, he just laughs and says that the coach would have probably congratulate him. This is a bad example to the children
Willy is also promiscuous. We see that his son finds him with a woman that works at one of his client’s office. Throughout the play he describes his life to be boring and lonely and so he gets involved with this woman to alleviate his loneliness. The result of this is that his son becomes distant and ashamed .his father is no longer a hero and after this he starts to drift from one job to another and becomes rebellious to authorities.
As seen above the protagonists in the two plays the streetcar named desire and that of the salesman both meet tragic ends. Blanche is forcefully sent to a mental hospital after being raped by Stanley. Willy on the other hand accepted death as his last escape and resistance from the truth and the society. The two plays combine reality with illusion that the characters create fir themselves .blanche uses lies to lie to everyone around her even fooling herself of her tragic past. Willy on the other hand seems as if he’s not even aware of the fact that he is trapped in his illusion of the American dream which promises fulfilling his dream of wealthy life he had worked for all his life. Therefore the two characters are similar in away (Smith 10).

Works Cited
Kundtz, John Skelly. "A streetcar named Desire: A study of determinism in modern drama."
(1959).
Miller, Arthur, and Enoch Brater. Death of a Salesman. London: Methuen Drama, 2010. Print.
Schechner, Richard. "Race free, gender free, body-type free, age free casting." TDR (1988-) 33.1
(1989): 4-12.
Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. "What is happening to broadway?." Communication Quarterly 7.1 (1959): 20-29.
Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. "What is happening to broadway?." Communication Quarterly 7.1 (1959): 20-29.
Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. "What is happening to broadway?." Communication Quarterly 7.1 (1959): 20-29.