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Summary of All My Sons By Arthur Mille |
One of Arthur Miller's well-known plays is "All My Sons". The play was created in 1946, and it was released in 1947. This drama features three acts, each of which tells a different part of the fascinating narrative. This play is set in a small American town. The play takes place a few years after World War II. American realistic drama is the basis for the play.
Summary of All My Sons
After America and Great Britain allied against Germany in World War II, Arthur Miller's play All My Sons takes place. The period covered 1941 through 1947. The TV show All My Sons centres on Joe Keller and his interactions with his family, particularly with his wife Kate and son Chris Keller.
The play opens with Joe Keller, the main character, and his neighbour Jim Bayliss, a doctor by trade, relaxing in their backyard. They're both reading newspapers. Joe Keller is a successful self-made businessman who owns and operates a technology business. Jim Bayless, his neighbour, is very dissatisfied with his family situation. He spends a lot of time socializing with Keller's family. Mrs. Kate Keller is another one of the play's characters. Chris Keller is the son of Joe and Kate Keller. Actually, they also had a son by the name of Larry Keller. In the Second World War conflict, Keller's two sons participated.
Larry Keller, unfortunately, lost his life during that conflict. Chris Keller, who is still alive, is a junior partner in his father's manufacturing company. Larry Keller's mother, Mrs. Kate Keller, however, is very certain. She believes that Larry is still alive and somewhere out there, and that he will eventually come back. She's a pretty upbeat person and she believes in astrology. Mrs. Kate has faith in her astrologer neighbours Mr. and Mrs. Lubey. Both of them have increased Mrs. Kate's self-assurance regarding her son, Larry. The Keller family has a tree in memory of Larry.
Due to the storm in Larry's birth month, the tree has been blown. The Lubey family claims that the uprooted tree is a sign of Larry's survival. Mrs. Kate is quite optimistic as a result of all of these things. Chris, though, holds very different views from hers. He is well aware that three years ago, while Larry Keller was serving in the military during World War II, he was slain. Chris's fiancée Annie Deever was once his brother Larry's girlfriend. Chris and Annie both desire marriage. Chris discusses Annie's recent move from New York with his father. He begs his father for approval before proposing to her.
Larry, Mrs. Kate's second son, is still living. The death of her son Larry will be established if Chris and Annie are married. So Mrs. Kate will not agree to his proposal for Annie's marriage. Steve Deever, who has spent the majority of his life behind bars, is Annie's father. Steve Deever worked for Joe Keller's manufacturing company throughout the Second World War. At that time, Steve allowed the sale of some faulty fighter plane parts (cylinder heads) to the US air force. Twenty-one fighter pilots from aeroplanes had died in a plane crash as a result of his approval and negligence. In that situation, he was detained and imprisoned.
Steve Deever remains behind bars. Steve Deever was merely a staff member there. He carried out all of Joe Keller's instructions. However, Joe Keller managed to get away with that accusation while entangling Steve Deever in it. Even Keller's family questions Annie's motivations for seeking her father's retribution. The family of Keller, however, is reassured by Annie, who claims that neither she nor her brother George has contact with their father Steve Deever.
George, Annie's brother, lives far from this community. He finally makes the trip to the prison to see his father, Steve Deever, after many years. He tells his father that he will meet Keller's family tonight when they have a meeting. Annie is really worried about her brother George showing up at Keller's place. Mr. Joe Keller is reminded by Mrs. Kate Keller to be prepared to respond to George's inquiries. Being quite hostile, George arrives there. Chris and Dr. Jim makes every effort to calm him down. George accuses Joe Keller of a number of things. George claims that Joe is primarily to blame for his father's imprisonment. He never stops questioning why he harms innocent people and wrecks their lives.
He accuses Joe of passing over substandard airplane parts and lying about being ill. He is curious as to why he does the things he does. He keeps asking him questions. Joe Keller doesn't give him the answers he wants, so he storms out of the house in rage. Annie departs from home like her brother. George forbids Annie from being married to Chris Keller, the offspring of the guy who ruined the Deever family. In reality, Joe Keller committed all the evil things during the war. He stayed at home while feigning illness. Steve Deever, one of his workers, was detained. Chris feels quite irate with Joe, his father.
Joe had not only imprisoned an innocent person, but he had also killed 21 pilots during the war. Joe had committed an unforgivable crime in his life for the sake of the company's profit. Chris is depressed and leaves the house. He gets in his car and drives away. Chris returns the next day and discovers Annie. Annie expresses her desire to marry Chris and live with him, but Mrs. Kate declines her proposal. Finally, Annie pulls out a letter written by Larry to her three years ago. Mrs. Kate receives the letter from her. Chris reads aloud a letter in which Larry expresses his intention to commit suicide as a result of his father's heinous actions.
Joe is highly upset and admits that he is to blame for the deaths of all 22 pilots, including his son Larry, and for putting the innocent Steve in jail out of greed. He refers to each and every soldier as "All My Sons." Joe exits the building to fetch his coat when he shoots himself in the head off stage. Kate advises Chris to move on with his life with Annie far away from the town and not to blame himself when, in the end, he displays regret despite his resolution
Final notes of All My Sons
The play "All My Sons" is based upon a true story about a manufacturer who sells faulty parts to the military in order to save his business. It is a tragic and classic play. It deals with the tragic conflict between family loyalties and social responsibility. All the characters in the play are concerned with the establishment and maintenance of family life. Joe Keller is the head. He has run a successful manufacturing business both during and after the Second World War. Joe cares primarily about the happiness of his wife Kate and his son Chris, who works with him in the family business.
Lary, another son, was lost in a plane crash that caused the kind of difficult choices and forced Joe and Steve into their fateful decision to allow the production of cracked parts for the American planes. This play also reflects post-Second World War American society: the belief that the acquisition of wealth and material possessions were part of American power. Joe believes that he must acquire wealth in order to please his family and make something of himself in the world. The play also attempts to parse who is guilty of Lary's death.
Main Themes of All My Sons
In the play All My Sons' the main themes Family and greed are two of All My Sons' primary themes. Joe Keller is a materialistic, egotistical man who just cares about his money. He always has to make money from his business as his first and only focus. As long as he can profit in some way—whether it's monetary or in terms of recognition—he doesn't care what happens to other people.
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