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Arthur Miller's plays were widely known and was utterly successful. His first
play
that became successful was All My Son's, that was first seen in 1947. The next play he
wrote was the Death of a Salesmen, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. Death of
a
Salesman stunned audiences and had debats about the true nature of its tragedy.
Arthur Miller's All My Son's is set in the mid-west of United States around the
1940's. Joe Keller is the main character in the play. He has two sons, Larry and Chris
Keller, and is married to Kate. Larry was killed in war, and Joe was determined to see
his other son that lived be married and have a family of his own. The only problem is that
Chris wants to marry Ann who was Larry's fiancée. Kate believes that Larry is still alive
even though Larry has been dead for almos four years. It gets better, Joe Keller owned a
business that made aero parts for aeroplanes. One night the production line had made
craked cylinder heads. The manager, Steve, told Joe about the cracks and Joe told Steve
just to weld the cracks and everything would be fine. They sent out the shipment on time
and thought nothing of it. A few weeks later twenty-one aeroplanes crashed and killed all
the piolts. Joe and Steve were arrested but Joe said he knew nothing and was released
while Steve rotted in Jail. Larry found out about this and wrote to Ann, who is Steve's
daughter, saying that he was going to kill himself. A few weeks later Larry was repoted
missing. Chirs starts writing to Ann and they fall inlove. The play is when Ann comes
to the Keller's house with her brother George, and try to convince Kate that Larry is
dead so that Chris and Ann could get married. Kate doesn't want to believe that
Larry is dead and balmes Joe for crashing his plane. Joe has to support Kate
and what she believes so she wont tell every one that he knew about the cracked
cylinder heads.During the weekend, Ann and George find out the truth about
what had happend in the factory on the night of the production line. Kate start
to reveal Joe's secreat because he betrayed her and want Chris and Ann to get married.