Summary:
An overview of the views of the world held by three main characters -- Joe Keller, his wife Kate, and his son Chris -- in Arthur Miller's play "All My Sons."
All My Sons
In the play All My Sons, written by Arthur Miller, Joe Keller, Chris Keller, and Kate Keller all have different views on the world. Joe Keller is the father of Chris and Larry Keller who owns a shop that fixes parts for airplanes. Joe said his rightful position in society was to be a good husband and a good father. Yet he performed horrible acts just to keep his family stable. When in the Korean War, there were a hundred and twenty cracked engines that he was supposed to fix, but he could not because he was supposedly ill with the "flu." His love and hope for Chris blinded his ability to make a thoughtful and rational decision regarding faulty parts from his factory. This resulted in the death of 21 pilots who were fighting in the war. He said he cared about his family, but when he said "I'm in business, a man is in business."
The business that Joe Keller worked so hard was for his only son left Chris. Chris cared for everyone in the family and the world.
When Keller said that the business was for you and Chris said "For me! I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me? What the hell do you mean, you did it for me? Don't you have a country"" Chris was irate when he found out what his father did and said "What the hell are you? You're not even an animal, no animal kills his own, what are you"" After Chris ventured off Ann on the other hand didn't come out of her room while Kate was waiting for Chris to come back.
Kate Keller was the wife of Joe and the mother Larry and Chris Keller. Kate would always believe in one thing and she would stick to it. When she heard that Larry could have died in the war, she still believed that he was alive three years later. She hires an astronomer to get horoscopes on his favorable day November 25. It was his favorable day and she believe that Larry was still alive, but got a note from Ann telling that he was dead writing his last words before he died. She also thought that the tree that the Keller's bought to mourn him was his spirit and he was still alive. She also assumed that Ann Deever didn't want to marry and was still single was because that Ann was still waiting for Larry. It seems to happen that Ann didn't have any interest in Larry and that she was interested in Chris all along. In the end, Joe had lost everything he lived and worked for, his son, Chris lost his trust in a father-son relationship, and Kate never stop what she believed in until she knew the truth.
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