All My Sons is a play written by the American playwright Arthur Miller. It is about a troubled American family that lost a son in the war and they were taken to court in a case where the father was almost sent to jail. The key themes are lies and taking responsibility for your actions. It is also about the fact that the past always catches up to you. It came out after the war and its setting was in 1947, two years after the war. This is about the time that American society was in transition, where the younger generation was angry at the older people who stayed home and took advantage of the war to make money. It is aimed at the younger generation reassuring them that the past will catch up to the people who took advantage of the war. The tension
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Keller uses a series of rhetorical questions such as, “Chris! You … you think you know her pretty good?” Keller is raising doubts in Chris’s and the audience’s minds about Ann and the fact that she might be associated with her brother and her father to ruin the Kellers. When Keller asks the question the playwright uses a dramatic pause to show that Keller is hesitant and that he is thinking if this is an appropriate question. Another rhetorical question is, “She doesn’t hold anything against me, does she?” In the start of the quote it is like Keller is stating a fact proving and pleading his innocence to Chris, but when he says “ Does she?” he reveals his underlying guilt. He is nervous and wary of Ann because he is wondering if her coming to the Kellers the same time her brother goes to their father is a coincidence. He is suspicious that she is in conspiring against the Kellers with her …show more content…
She says, “He hasn’t been laid up in 15 years.” This is the turning point in the play. She is unknowingly implying that Joe wasn’t sick during the war when the cylinder heads were patched and that he didn’t go to the factory so that he couldn’t be held responsible. Keller instantly tries to cover up and says, “Except for my flu during the war”. Keller is trying to cover up for the slip up of mother. He is trying to pretend that mother simply forgot about the flu. He is also subtly trying to give mother a hint. But when mother says, “Huhh?” it is obvious to everyone that Keller being sick during the war was just a
Keller uses a series of rhetorical questions such as, “Chris! You … you think you know her pretty good?” Keller is raising doubts in Chris’s and the audience’s minds about Ann and the fact that she might be associated with her brother and her father to ruin the Kellers. When Keller asks the question the playwright uses a dramatic pause to show that Keller is hesitant and that he is thinking if this is an appropriate question. Another rhetorical question is, “She doesn’t hold anything against me, does she?” In the start of the quote it is like Keller is stating a fact proving and pleading his innocence to Chris, but when he says “ Does she?” he reveals his underlying guilt. He is nervous and wary of Ann because he is wondering if her coming to the Kellers the same time her brother goes to their father is a coincidence. He is suspicious that she is in conspiring against the Kellers with her …show more content…
She says, “He hasn’t been laid up in 15 years.” This is the turning point in the play. She is unknowingly implying that Joe wasn’t sick during the war when the cylinder heads were patched and that he didn’t go to the factory so that he couldn’t be held responsible. Keller instantly tries to cover up and says, “Except for my flu during the war”. Keller is trying to cover up for the slip up of mother. He is trying to pretend that mother simply forgot about the flu. He is also subtly trying to give mother a hint. But when mother says, “Huhh?” it is obvious to everyone that Keller being sick during the war was just a