All My Sons Act 1 Analysis Essay

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All My Sons Extract 1 Analysis In this essay I will be talking about an extract taken from Act 1, Page 115-116. This extract shows Joe Keller at the peak of his confidence as he is boasting about his exoneration which he achieved through lies and deceit which are a very common theme in this play in many other scenes as well. In the first five lines of the extract it establishes a way for Keller to boast about his success as Ann berates him with questions about the murder, vividly able to remember a neighbour shouting “Murders!” outside the house. These questions are also supported by Kate as she answers Ann with a straight answer of “They’re all still around” which would do nothing but reassure Ann that she isn 't very welcome in the neighbourhood, …show more content…

This one line spurs Joe on as it shows him approval from his son which is one of the things Keller aspires to achieve, wanting to appear perfect in front of Chris. The very last thing said in this extract is “You hear me?” which Keller says to get his whole point across to Ann and is seen as very aggressive. This line is also seemingly the exact opposite of Kate as she would try to pull you in while being quiet and secretly deceiving whereas Keller gets his point across by being very assertive with his speech. Overall this extract is meant to convey the two clashing personalities of Kate and Keller and to mainly show what Keller’s personality desires. This open display of Keller 's personality establishes the downfall of Keller further on in the play as he is seen committing suicide after he is revealed to be behind the crashing of P-40s. This enables Chris to lose all respect for him and Larry to commit suicide because of the crime, which means that Keller has no approval from people he cares about and then commits

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