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All My Sons
In Arthur Miller's play All My Sons, the protagonist is Joe Keller, a factory owner who allowed defective air plane parts to be shipped to the Army Air Force during World War II, resulting in the...
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Arthur Miller is making a statement about achieving the American dream through Joe Keller, who will do anything to obtain it. Joe, a manufacturer of airplane cylinder heads, knowingly ships out...
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Arthur Miller was an author of modern tragedies, plays that illuminated the frailty of both human life and, as importantly, of humanity itself. In perhaps his most well-know and loved play, Death...
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"All" of Joe Keller's (note the similarity to killer) sons include his two biological sons, Larry and Chris, and the 21 young men who died in plane crashes in World War II due to Keller's...
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It can be said that in Arthur Miller's All My Sons, the one thing Chris Keller loves more than his family is moral integrity, especially in the form of honesty.We particularly see Chris's value of...
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Joe has a lot of reasons to be troubled by Ann's unforgiving attitude toward her father, who she believes responsible for the deaths of twenty-one pilots as a result of the cracked cylinder heads...
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There are different approaches to responsibility in Joe's characterization and the ethical responsibility for his actions. Miller creates a construction in which the American Dream and the pursuit...
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Arthur Miller's All My Sons has been called an Ibsenite play because, as in Ibsen's A Doll House, the key issue is something kept secret in the past that affects the present. The play is realistic...
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In Arthur Miller's 1947 drama "All My Sons" tells the story of a family slowly, almost imperceptibly, disintegrating under the weight of family secrets too painful to discuss. One of the main...
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I answered a question very similar to this recently (link is below). The title is justified by the line that Joe Keller has late in the play: “I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess...
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“I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were.” This is what Joe Keller says after discovering why his son, Larry, killed himself. Larry was angry and...
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There is so much of this sad play that shows this is a domestic tragedy. A domestic tragedy can be defined as a tragedy where the principal actors in the tragedy are normal lower and middle class...
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Ann is alone. In her own words, she says she has "turned away" from her father. While he is in prison, she refuses to visit or to write. When her brother George comes to the Keller home in Act II,...
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At the play's beginning, the reader sees Joe Keller as a likeable, decent guy who has worked hard at his business, and done so in part to leave a legacy for both of his sons--Chris, who is a...
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What Chris is trying to convey is something that probably almost cannot be adequately put into words, the fierce loyalty that exists among those who have fought and died together, the true...
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Much of the opening dialogue in Act I of Arthur Miller’s tragedy All My Sons involves the newspaper Joe Keller is perusing as the play opens. There must be some meaning to the newspaper, but it...
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This question can be answered in several ways. The two most compelling ways to approach this question will look at 1) how women are characterized and 2) the roles women play functionally. Ann and...
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Chris calls Keller "Joe McGuts" after hearing Keller describe his return to the neighborhood after being released from custody. Keller says that instead of parking directly in front of his own...
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The Keller family patriarch, Joe is a self-made businessman who started out as a semiskilled laborer and worked his way up in the business world to become a successful manufacturer. The basics of...
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Your question brings to light an interesting aspect of Miller’s play: he leaves us to ponder what might happen next. By all accounts, we do believe that Joe Keller has killed himself, so that...
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The themes of this play might be said to revolve around ideas of honesty. Guilt and the admission of guilt, accusation, denial, and dishonest business practices are all central elements of Miller's...
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Joe Keller is basically refering to his sense of guilt, which struck him with so much horror and force just before he shot himself in the last 3rd act-- he believes that he is also to blame along...
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Through first two acts of the play, Keller attempts to deflect all blame from himself regarding the sale of the faulty airplane parts. He claims to have been sick on the day that the faulty parts...
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Arthur Miller uses decisions and consequences to drive the plot of his play. Joe's decision to lie about his role in the shipping of the cracked cylinder heads has resulted in the destruction of...
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Writing a monologue from Chris Keller's point of view after his father's death, we will have to use what we know about his character to imagine what he might have - hypothetically - have wanted to...
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Although the end of All My Sons can be defined as tragic, due simply to the fact of Joe's suicide, some positives do emerge. 1) The shadow of Larry's death has been lifted from the family. No...
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Chris is in conflict with his mother over whether or not he should marry Ann, his brother's former girlfriend. Kate, Chris's mother, insists that Larry is still alive and so it would be wrong for...
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First, it should be noted that not all literary works have a character who is a “moral compass”. This method of constructing a work is only needed (1) if the author is attempting to promulgate...
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Larry is a very interesting character in the play. We might say he becomes especially interesting and important considering Miller's project in this play. As he described it, he was trying to find...
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George is Ann's brother and he functions in the play's second act as an inquisitor and antagonist to Chris and especially to Joe. George does not believe Joe Keller's story about what happened in...
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The biggest historical event that provides a backdrop for the action of this brilliant play is the Second World War, which gives rise to the massive choice facing Joe Keller and his own personal...
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chris was not happy in act 1 as he was not pleased with his profession and he did not earn much money from it.it was the reason for his troubles with his wife SUE as she was so materialistic and...
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Joe who was brought up before the war still values practicallity, of supporting the family and working. Where as Chris has been brought up in an idealistic society, where he values education and...
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in the play,"all my sons" by arthur miller, joe keller is the protagonist who unknowingly commits a terrible crime. so the character of joe keller meets the definition of a tragic hero found in...
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I think the second name (( Keller)) was used by Miller as it is similar to the pronounciation of the word ((killer)) and he was a killer as he was the main reason of the death of the 21 pilots and...
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If I were you, I would want to look at the way that the disappearance of Larry points towards severe problems within the family, especially in the way that Kate Keller reacts to the continued...
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There lies the rub. We have to remember the extremely complex set of emotions that are whirling around inside of Chris's head at this stage of his play. He is caught between a massive internal...
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I am not too sure that "immature" is the right word to describe Chris Keller. I would definitely want to describe him as an idealist and perhaps somewhat naive about the state of the world and...
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The conflict that centers in Chris is that of the idealist who thinks things should always be decided by principles (ideas/ideals), the position that he takes, and that of the realist who...
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Each one of thr character had certain illusions at the begining of the play and towards the end of it. For example, Chris has certain illusion; he went through tow phrases: The first one was when...
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In what could be considered the climax of the play, Ann reveals to the Keller family the letter she received from Larry before he died, which Chris reads out to compare his conduct about his father...
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This is a highly timely and important revelation, as Jim's understanding of Keller's position and his own revelation about how he has been similarly involved in acts of compromise underscore the...
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I suppose this is a matter of interpretation; however, I do not think that Joe Keller committed suicide at the end of All My Sons because he was afraid of turning himself in to the authorities....
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You asked more than one question in your original question. Enotes only permits one question and so I have edited your original question accordingly. Please do not ask multiple questions in...
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In the play Ann and George are sister and brother, both children of the former partner of Joe Keller, Steve Deever. However, they differ in their attitude to their father, who has now been in jail...
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This is a great question. Of course, you are going to get a wide range of responses. We are presented with a whole series of characters who are suffering in one way or another. One approach is to...
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Joe Keller is the protagonist of All My Sons, and his actions revolving around his decision to harbor a grave secret for many years do have a significant impact on the other characters in the...
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We find out the answer to your question at the end of Act I when Joe Keller tells "his" story to Ann Deever, Steve Deever's daughter and Joe's former partner on whom Joe has conveniently blamed the...
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This is a great question. Kate Keller is a kind, sympathetic character who is nevertheless torn apart by what her husband has done and also by false hope of the eventual return of Larry. It is...