Gregor and Willy

I am reading Death of a Salesman. I do not wish to sound judgmental; I hurt for Willy. I remember Kafka's Metamorphosis and think: Here are two travelling salesmen: Gregor Samsa and Willy Loman. Who is more absurd: the one who turns into a bug and is trying to figure out how to make his train, or the one who turns from himself and is trying to make a life?