What role do women play in Death of a Salesman and Fences? What is the role of women in both plays?

The hard work of
remaining grounded in reality,
of planning and carrying out practical domestic tasks to keep the
household
working and functioning, and of coping with the flaws, fancies, and moral failures
of
the "failed dreamers" (the patriarchs) falls to the wives in these two
stories. Rose
and Linda mediate between father and son as well. 

Linda and Rose are the
primary female figures in these texts, while
a mistress is also present in the narrative of each
story as well. As the
primary female figures, Linda and Rose present a number of

similarities. 

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