All My Sons
(Arthur Miller)
Written in 1947, this play by Arthur Miller is a criticism
of both the American ideal and the monetary boom which
occurred in the United States as a direct result of the big
business which profited from the Second World War. The play
begins in the back yard of the Keller family. Joe Keller is
a successful business man who built engines for planes
during the Second World War. Ann Deever comes down from New
York to visit Chris, Joe?s son who is in his early 30s. She
had been the fiancé of Joe?s older son who went missing in
action during the war. Larry was a pilot in the air force
and the family remain devastated by his loss; his mother
refuses to believe that he is dead and lives in a constant
state of denial. Ann Deever is the daughter of Joe?s old
business partner who is now in jail for providing the army
with faulty engines for its planes which killed 21 pilots.
Although Ann?s father swears that it was Joe who told him
over the phone to send the shipment in spite of the problem
with the engines, Joe refused to acknowledge his own guilt
and has remained out of jail. Ann?s brother George finally
has proof that Joe was behind the faulty engines and comes
to take Ann away from Keller and his family. Ann wants to
marry Chris despite his father?s crime and shows Chris a
letter she received from Larry before his death, stating
that he knew of his father?s crime and could not live when
so many other pilots died because of the actions of his
father. Chris, astounded by the news of his brother?s death
finally confronts his father and blames him for his own
son?s death as well as that of all those other boys. Joe,
devastated at the events realizes that his actions were
wrong and says to Chris, perhaps they were all his sons and
that he was responsible for all of them. He cannot live
with himself after this and takes his own life.
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- All My Sons
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