All My Sons

Three and a half years before the events of the play, Larry Keller was reported missing in action, while flying a mission off the coast of China.His father, Joe Keller, was head of a business which made aero engine parts. When, one night, the production line began to turn out cracked cylinder heads, the night foreman alerted Joe's deputy manager, Steve Deever as he arrived at work. Steve called using the phone, steve called Joe at home, to ask what to do. Worried by the lost production and not seeing the consequences of his decision, Joe told Steve to weld over the cracks. He said that he would take responsibility for this, but could not come in to work, as he had influenza. Several weeks later twenty-one aeroplanes crashed on the same day, killing the pilots.

There are more things that happens to this family which are very tragic. These plays, and those of Shakespeare ,we do not see even kings in this way. When writers want to show a person who represents a nation or class, they typically invent a fictitious "ordinary" person, the Man in the Street or Joe Public. In Joe Keller, Arthur Miller creates just such a representative type. Joe is a very ordinary man, decent, hard-working and a man no-one could dislike. But, like the protagonist of the ancient drama, he has a flaw or weakness. This, in turn, causes him to act wrongly. He is forced to accept responsibility - his suicide is necessary to restore the everything in the world , and allow his beloved son, Chris, to live , free from guilt.Also, a pretty nice supportive character, not a very bad man.

The play has two narrative strands which finally meet. These are:

* Chris's and Ann's attempt to persuade Kate that Larry is dead, so they can marry. Joe wishes to support them, but sees that he cannot;

* the attempt by George, then by Chris, to find out the truth of what happened in Joe's factory in the autumn of 1943.

Overall, this is a family which was totally chagnged after the war . There is no such character in this play who harms the family.All the characters in this book are sort of haunted by their past and no one is doing things right.We cant really blame any certain character for any harms on the family.Its about attempting suicides and murder etc.