num_pages: 112
description: Joe Keller and Herbert Deever, partners in a machine shop during the war, turned out defective airplane parts, causing the deaths of many men. Deever was sent to prison while Keller escaped punishment and went on to make lots of money. In a work of tremendous power, a love affair between Keller's son, Chris, and Ann Deever, Herbert's daughter, the bitterness of George Keller, who returns from the war to find his father in prison and his father's partner free, and the reaction of a son to his father's guilt escalate toward a climax of electrifying intensity.Winner of the Drama Critics' Award for Best New Play in 1947, All My Sons established Arthur Miller as a leading voice in the American theater. All My Sons introduced themes that thread through Miller's work as a whole: the relationship between fathers and sons, and the conflict between business and personal ethics.
language: English
title: All My Sons
titlecomplete: All My Sons
characters: Ann Deever, Dr. Jim Bayliss, Kate Keller, Joe Keller, George Deever, Chris Keller
genres: Theatre, Drama, Classics, American, Plays, War, School, 20th Century, Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 27162
awards: awardedAt: -725817600000
name: New York Drama Critics' Circle Award
category: Best American Play
publisher: Penguin Classics