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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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
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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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All My Sons
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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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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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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All My Sons
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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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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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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All My Sons
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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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 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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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...
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All My Sons
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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All My Sons
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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Money plays a significant role in Joe Keller's decision to ship the faulty airplane parts. He has worked very hard from the bottom up to own the factory, he believed that if he did not meet the...
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All My Sons
The rising action in All My Sons begins with the arrival of Anne Deever to the Keller home. During the night, the tree that was planted in the yard in memory of Larry, who is missing in action in...
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American Dream: Joe Keller, a simple, blue-collar worker, who has made it to business owner, sacrifices everything to maintain his version of the American dream. He surrenders his integrity, he...
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Frank dabbles in astrology. He agrees to concoct a horoscope for Larry. He announces that the day Larry disappeared was one of his favorable days-meaning days when success and luck are highest. He...
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When Kate Keller says these words to her husband, she is referring to the fact that George Deever, Ann's brother, is on his way to the Keller home. She is very concerned about George's need to...
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Near the end of the play, Ann feels that she must reveal the truth about Larry because Kate simply will not accept the idea that he is most likely dead. Kate's firm belief in Larry's being alive...
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All My Sons
In All My Sons, the central conflict revolves around the Keller family. First in the decision that Joe Keller made to ship the faulty cylinder heads to the military to preserve his business, he...
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All My Sons
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 haven't read An Inspector Calls, but I am pretty familiar with All My Sons and Death of a Salesman. At the end of both, the protagonists Joe Keller and Willy Loman commit suicide because their...
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All My Sons
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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Sue Bayliss, the wife of next door neighbor Jim Bayliss, resides in the house that used to belong to Joe's partner, Steve Deever. She dislikes the Kellers because she thinks Chris really knows...
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All My Sons
All My Sons by Arthur Miller has a few tragic elements that are displayed in the third act if we define tragedy as being the downfall of something good. First, the relationship between Ann and...
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All My Sons
Joe Keller's character causes readers to make several judgments and draw a variety of conclusions. For example, a reader could judge Joe's decision to ship the faulty airplane parts as immoral...
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All My Sons
In the play "All My Sons" the significance of the setting contributes to the overall theme which is the pursuit of the American Dream. The setting for the play is Joe Keller's backyard. In the...
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All My Sons
The apple tree is symbolic in many ways. First, it was planted in the memory of Larry, the eldest the the Keller children whose plane was shot down in the World War II. Apple trees are universal...
