A connection I saw between The Glass Menagerie and Native Son was that for both of the main characters Bigger and Tom and their families, the American Dream is always out of reach for them. Bigger is a black man stuck in a white society where he go anywhere, get any job he wants or go to school; he`s forced to stay in a bad situation the rest of his life. Tom is also forced to live in a terrible life with his mother and sister; he does not have the strength to walk out on them like his father did and leave behind Laura. But he does not want to spend the rest of his life in a warehouse factory, instead, he has dreams of writing poetry, much like Bigger has a dream of flying a plan one say. There is also a connection between Tom`s mother and Bigger`s they both nag on their boys to go out and find a job, so they can support the family, and they live in a run down apartment.