Arthur Miller's Play 'All My Sons'

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All My Sons 


Arthur Miller started writing All My Sons in 1945, inspired by World War II and the true-life story  of a woman who alerted authorities to her father's wartime wrong-doing . The play focuses on the story of a businessman who once narrowly avoided financial ruin by shipping cracked machine parts to the military. He blames his business partner and builds an empire, but eventually his crime comes back to haunt him. The play was produced after the war, won the 1947 Tony, and beat out Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh for the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award that same year.

You might already know Miller from some of his most famous plays, like

 The Crucible 
 Death of a Salesman 
 A View From the Bridge 

All My Sons was one of Miller's earliest plays – and his first commercially successful one – but it already features the ideas of social responsibility that he obsessed with throughout his entire career.

Joe Keller, a successful businessman, lives comfortably with his wife, Kate, and son, Chris, in a suburban American neighborhood. They have only one sadness in their lives – the loss of their other son, Larry, who went missing in World War II. After three years, Kate still clings to the hope that her son is alive. Chris would like her to give up that hope because he wants to marry Ann, an old neighbor and Larry's former fiancée.
 
Ann's father is in prison for a crime he committed while working in Joe's factory. Faced with a batch of defective machine parts, he patched them and sent them out, causing the death of 21 pilots during the war. Turns out that Joe was also accused of this crime and convicted, but he was exonerated (set free) during the appeal. Steve went to prison; Joe returned home and made his business bigger and better.

George Ann's brother going to meet his father in jail, at there he know that his father was innocent and Keller was responsible for it. Then George meet to Christ and tell him about the truth, Kate has accepted the truth that it all happened because of his father and then Joe also guilt  for doing that. Ann has shown the latter of Larry which is given by him before he was going on the mission, it is not only the note but it is a suicide note.

After hearing that Joe feel guilt for the unconsciously murdered of his own son and then think about the all pilots that they were also liked their sons. He decided to surrender and for that he went to his room to take his cote, but the sound of gunshot comes from his room and he was died.