All My Sons Summary
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All My Sons Summary

All My Sons, Arthur Miller's first commercially successful play, opened at the Coronet Theatre in New York on January 29, 1947. It ran for 328 performances and garnered important critical acclaim for the dramatist, winning the prestigious New York Drama Critics' Circle Award.

Miller's earlier play, The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944), had not done well and had quickly closed; therefore, at the time All My Sons opened, Miller's reputation as a writer was based...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

All My Sons

4,928 words, approx. 17 pages

All My Sons by Arthur Miller Born in 1915 and raised in New York City, Arthur Miller attended college in Michigan during the Great Depression of the 1930s. It was during this time that he grew conc... Read more

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Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller (born 1915), American playwright, novelist, and film writer, is considered one of the major dramatists of 20th-century American theater.Arthur Miller was born on October 17, 1915, in New... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an actress. Although... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Arthur Miller is one of the major dramatists of the twentieth century. He has earned this reputation during a more than sixty-year career in which he wrote his first plays as an undergraduate at the U... Read more

Arthur Miller

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Biography EssayArthur Miller was born in Manhattan, the son of a middle-class ladies' coat manufacturer and a schoolteacher mother. He has a brother who became a businessman and a sister who was an ac... Read more

Essays & Analysis (7)

Critical Essay by Barry Gross

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The Truth

900 words, approx. 4 pages

Responsibility or the lack there of, is the underlying theme of "All My Sons." One good example of irresponsibility is when Joe insisted on claiming to George that it was his own father, Steve, wh... Read more

All My Sons

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The American Dream is simply to grow up, become wealthy, and own lots of property. There are many different variations of the American Dream yet this is the general gist of it. The part of the America... Read more

All My Sons

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Life is full of many hard decisions that people have to take, often on the spur of the moment. Some we get right others turn horribly wrong. Joe Keller, the tragic hero of Arthur Miller's play All My ... Read more

World Views in "All My Sons"

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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... Read more

Contrasts in Act Two of "All My Sons"

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After finishing Act Two of "All My Sons" by Arthur Miller, we can appreciate the way Miller has created some interesting contrasts between the characters from the point of view of their interests and ... Read more

How Manipulative Do You Think Mother Is in All My Sons?

1,733 words, approx. 6 pages

`All My Sons' is a moralistic play set against the backdrop of post WW2, the period in which America was in a state of flux; frightened, nervous and eminently unstable. This powerful and moving play t... Read more

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