All My Sons

All My Sons 

 All my sons is a play written by Arthur Miller. It shows the  actions and consequences of morality. It studies the theme of idealism verses realism, social responsibility and the American dream. This play takes place after World War II, in the year 1947. The play shows conflict between a Father and a son and how quickly a family can fall apart following a serious revelation. 

 Joe and Kate Keller had two sons, Chris and Larry. Keller owned a manufacturing plant with Steve Deever, and their families were close. Steve's daughter Ann was Larry's fiance  and George was their friend.

During the war Keller's and Deever's manufacturing plant had a very profitable contract with the U.S. Army to supplying airplane parts. One morning a shipment of defective parts came in. Under pressure from the army to keep up the output Steve Deever called Keller. He had not yet come into work that morning. So Steve ask him that  what he should do. Keller told Steve to weld the cracks in the airplane parts and ship them out. Steve was nervous about doing this alone. Keller said that he had the flu and he could not come at work. Steve shipped out the defective but possibly safe parts on his own. Later on this defective parts caused twenty-one planes to crash and their pilots to die. police has arrested both in this Keller however become successful to prove his innocence by told that he has not there when these parts departure. 

Three years later, the action of the play begins. Chris has invited Ann to the Keller house because he intends to propose to her. Everyone else has accepted that Larry is not coming home, and Chris and Keller argue that Mother should learn to forget her other son. Mother demands that Keller in particular should believe that Larry is alive, because if he is not, then their son's blood is on Keller's hands. Ann's brother George arrives to stop the wedding. He had gone to visit Steve in jail to tell him that his daughter was getting married at that time he come to know that his father is innocent. Chris's confidence in his father's innocence is shaken. Later on Ann is forced to show Mother the letter that Larry wrote to her before he died. which was essentially a suicide note. The note basically confirms Mother's belief that if Larry is dead, then Keller is responsible not because Larry's plane had the defective parts but because Larry killed himself in response to the family responsibility and shame due to the defective parts. Keller enters and mother is not able to stop her son to read letter aloud. After that Keller come to know that the death of all pilots happens because of him. Later on he realise that all are his sons. He felt guilty and he killed himself.