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All My Sons
The role of the past is critical in the play and overhangs the actions of most of the key characters, with dramatic effects that include impeding their ability to move forward in some cases, as...
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All My Sons
Frank is a 32-year-old character who managed to be one year ahead of the draft. He never served in WWII. Instead, he stayed home, and as a result, began dating and married George’s former...
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Sue says the whole town knows the truth about Joe Keller. She is of course referring to what Joe did in the war and the fact that he let another man take the blame for his actions. Sue's anger is...
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Chris is tired of Joe's refusal to accept responsibility in the soldier's deaths, as well as his part in his own son's death. He wants everyone to witness the proof of Joe's guilt, and force his...
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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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George is in a rage and looking for a fight. He is there to protest the intended marriage of Ann and Chris. He announces that Keller is to blame for their family's problems.
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Sue, who does not like the Kellers in general and Chris in particular, thinks Chris is distracting her husband Jim from his work. Sue believes that marital happiness is based primarily on...
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Just after Joe Keller commits suicide, Chris appears to be burdened by what his father has just done. Chris has just finished telling Kate that she and others must realize that they are...
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Kate suggests that he go to Chris and apologize, express his regret, and offer to go to jail to prove his sincerity. Kate thinks Chris will accept his apology but not insist on his going to jail.
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Larry's death is somewhat central to the play. A few things which are connected to it: - Ann's sympathy for her father in prison ended the day Larry crashed - Larry's letter before his death is...
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In this scene, Joe and Chris Keller are talking about Mrs. Keller's increasing despair over her son Larry, whom she still believes is alive. She's been having terrible nightmares about him lately...
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The primary character in Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons who asserts belief in external forces is Kate Keller. Her assertion of this attitude is supported by her interaction with Frank Deever....
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After her fiance, Larry, disappears on a flight during WWII, Ann starts dating his brother, Chris. When the play is set, they've gotten engaged, and Ann is coming to stay with the Keller family so...
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George Deever certainly has a pivotal role to play in the drama in that he forces the Kellers to confront the consequences of their father's descent into corruption. Before George arrives on the...
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Frank Lubey is a minor character who helps provide essential information to the audience through asking insensitive questions. He also helps connect the Kellers and the Deevers because he still...
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The plot of All My Sons demonstrates how much both the Deevers and the Kellers are still gripped by the past. The main reasons are that Steve Deever is still in jail and Larry Keller is (depending...
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All My Sons
Arthur Miller’s three-act play All My Sons tells about the lives of Joe Keller and his family. The play’s action takes place in Joe’s backyard as we learn about his family and the decisions Joe has...
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All My Sons
Arthur Miller’s play All My Sons is the story of the Keller family, which includes the parents—Joe and Kate—and their two sons Chris and Larry. The play is set immediately post-World War II, and...
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Believe it or not, but this is the very same question that led to a major political crisis in England during the sixteenth century. King Henry VIII had married Catherine of Aragon, the widow of his...
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I don't think it was an act of courage so much as an act of desperation born out of a sense of overwhelming shame at what his dad had done. We can't know for sure precisely what was going through...
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The question of responsibility is central in All My Sons. Joe Keller assumed several kinds of responsibility as a father and a business owner during World War II. Arthur Miller’s title points to...
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Sue has a veritable laundry list of complaints she wants to get off her chest. All of them have one thing in common: the Kellers. For a start, she's not exactly thrilled that Anne's planning to get...
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Chris Keller certainly sees himself as an idealist. His wartime experiences have given him a firm sense of right and wrong, and he finds it somewhat frustrating that such a black and white view of...
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Larry is significant because he represents the sons who died in the war because Keller and his partner shipped defective airplane parts. Larry has already died when the play opens. Thus, he is only...
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All My Sons features a complex, fraying marital relationship between Kate and Joe Keller. Kate’s inability to accept her son’s death has left her mentally unstable. Trying to function while in a...
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When Chris Keller has run away from home, his mother, Kate, is concerned about whether he will ever come back. She asks Dr. Jim Bayliss what he thinks, and Jim replies with what he regards as a...
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Kate, Larry's mother, is a sympathetic character who wants to believe her son Larry is still alive. After all, he is technically missing in action from World War II rather than officially declared...
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Both stories are based on lies which show the extent to which those who believe them are unable or unwilling to face up to reality. Through his cops-and-robbers game with Bert, a neighborhood kid,...
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In this scene, Mother (or Kate) is thinking about her deceased son Larry. Everything around her comes together to remind her of Larry. She even says, It's so funny ... everything decides to happen...
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Annie’s father was Joe Keller’s business partner. Annie blames him for his actions during the war when he knowingly shipped defective airplane parts that were used to build military airplanes and...
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The universality of morality is captured in the play's title. The men who are fighting in the war are all Joe Keller's sons, as they are the sons of everyone in America. And yet, by knowingly...
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Joe's decision to commit suicide comes from the revelations in Anne's letter from Larry. When Joe finds out that his son, Larry actually killed himself because he could not bear to live with the...
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The apple tree that was planted in a tribute for Larry is destroyed in a storm. This seems to signal rough times ahead, as well as the destruction of hope that Larry will ever be found alive.
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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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A tragic hero is defined by several factors, he must have a character flaw that prevents him from seeing the truth. There is a reversal of fortune due to his mistaken judgement. He usually loses...
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Jim Bayliss has an important role in the final act of the play, he explains to Kate that he knew all along that Joe was guilty. He also tries to reassure Kate that Chris, who has run off since...
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All My Sons
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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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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There is a generational gap between the two men. Joe is a simple man who worked his way to the top. Chris, his son, has had an easier road to walk, he did not have to work his way to the top in...
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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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In Arthur Miller's All My Sons, Sue Bayliss, a former nurse, is the wife of Dr. Jim Bayliss, a physician in private practice. Dr. Bayliss's practice is going well, and it pays well—which Sue...
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The idea that the American people are trying to evade the negative social effects of World War II threads through Arthur Miller's play. The main way that Miller presents escapism in All My Sons is...
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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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There are several obvious ways that this play is linked to Classical tragedy. One is the present of the three "unities": time, place, and action. All of the action of the play is about one...
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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 a...
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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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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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Chris Keller can be considered a Christ-like figure in the play because he is a beacon of truth, embodies a true forgiveness for others and encourages others to commit themselves to helping...
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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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All My Sons
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...
