All My Sons Character Analysis

Arthur Miller’s play, All My Sons, endorses a redefinition of family, since the play is about a family. The Keller family exercise a significance in the themes of the play by Christopher Bigsby’s fact: “an earlier production and became, in essence, what it had always been in his own mind: a study of denial, of guilt, of social responsibility”(pg#vii). This shows the great influence of this family on them. However, this family follows those themes throughout other characters, specially the Deever family: George, Ann and their father Steve. These individual characters, George, Ann and Steve, in a individual way, each contribute to the conflict, characterization of the Keller family specifically Chris, Joe and Kate and lastly to the theme of justice and judgment thoroughly in the play.

In Arthur Miller’s play, All My Sons, one of these individual characters, especially George, he is the one who most contributes to the conflict specifically in the play. He is the antagonist in the play by raising the stakes of the conflict, which presents him as a matter of fact as the catalyst of the tragedy. This catalyst, shows this by arriving at the Keller’s home after visiting

As a matter of fact George and Ann are clearly the antagonists in the play. Their father helps these antagonists to take action by presenting justice and judgment once and for all. In the end, the Deever family clearly has a excellent and important significance in Arthur Miller’s play, due to the fact that if they were not shown on the whole, the play’s conflict would have been weak, the characterization of characters were going to have less description and information of them and finally the theme of justice and judgment wouldn’t be after all present because of the fact that they are the reason why this play of ‘tragedy’ has a