ALL MY SONS
-Arthur
Miller
Miller
began writing plays as an undergraduate. By 1946, his All My Sons was
a success (his first major work), and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best
Author. Miller concerned himself with the mind-set of the American family-man
and –woman: those whose job was to provide, materially, for their families, but
who often found that life was more difficult than the mere accumulation of
wealth. All My Sons, like many of Miller’s plays, is an attempt to sift
through the values common to American families after the Second World War, in
order to determine what “the good life” truly meant in an age of rising
economic circumstances.
All
my sons’ is one of the best plays by American playwright Arthur Miller. It was
his first commercial successful play. His plays basically express moral,
social, and political ideas.
All my sons’ very significant and attractive title, it
directly appeals the curiosity of the reader. The title is very appropriate.
The play is divided in to three acts. The play falls under the genre of modern
tragedy.
The story is of a businessman named Joe Keller and his
family. He has a business of making cylinder head for air force, but it
happened once that when he was out of his business plant, at the same time there
was war going on so army needs very high numbers of cylinder heads. It so
happened that his partner Steve Devers informed him on phone that by mistake
some cylinders were creaked. Instead of stop him from sending it to army. Joe
suggest to make repairs on those cylinder and send it to army, Steve did so and
as a result of that twenty one innocent pilots were died in the plan which used
those cylinder. The play opens after three years of this incident.
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