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All My Sons, is a three acts play.It is set in a small town several years after World War II, and begins with Jim Bayliss, a doctor, and Joe Keller, the head of the Keller family. Sitting in the backyard, reading the paper. Last night a storm cut down half the tree, which appears in memory of Larry Keller, one of Keller's two children-the son who did not survive the war. Chris, Keller's other son and a junior partner in the family construction business, comes out and tells his father, Joe, after Jim leaves, believing the family cannot proceed against Kate, Joe's wife. that Larry is still alive. Frank Lubbe, another neighbor of the Kellers' (with his wife Lydia Lubbe), has been using astrology to determine whether Larry is alive, and he brings this information to Kate later in the play, but for the most part For, Chris believes that everyone in town has come to the same conclusion: that, three years later, Larry will not be returning to the small town, that Larry's plane crash in the war was fatal.
Chris also tells his father that Annie, Larry's ex-girlfriend who is visiting the Keller house from New York, is there because Chris wants to propose to her. Joe has no real problem with the idea in itself, but Joe fears that Kate will not allow it, as Annie is "Larry's girl", and giving Annie to Chris would mean that Larry is actually dead. Is. Kate comes out, as does Annie, and a series of tense conversations ensue, in which Chris attempts to demonstrate his affection for Annie, and Kate tries to insist that Larry is dead. No, and Annie is not "Chris's girl". Gradually, during the first act, it is revealed that Annie's father, Steve, was a former employee of Joe's at a construction company during the war, and that Steve apparently fixed the production of faulty aircraft parts. which were shipped in American planes. And because of which 21 pilots died in plane crashes. Steve went to jail for his negligence, but Joe was released, arguing in court that Steve acted alone, and that Joe did not force him to ship defective parts.
Joe and Kate worry that Annie has come to stir up trouble in the Keller family regarding Joe's guilt over the construction case, and this also complicates the prospect of Chris and Annie's marriage. Chris also tells Annie that he has a hard time navigating the moral complexities of post-war life, and he tells a story from the war, in which a soldier gave him his last pair of dry socks, Which was meant as a sign of his moral simplicity in war.
George, Annie's brother, makes a long distance call from Columbus, where Steve is imprisoned, saying that he too is going to the Keller house that evening. Annie worries that George is coming out with revelations about the Jo-Steve affair, and Kate tells Jo to prepare herself for George's questioning. George leaves in a huff, and although Jim and Chris attempt to calm him down, George accuses Joe of intentionally causing Steve to "take the fall" for the construction failures. George believes Steve's story, that Joe himself told Steve over the phone to tell him about the defective parts. George believes that Jo feigned illness that evening to avoid going to the plant, thus keeping distance from the events, which enabled Jo to place the blame entirely on Steve. Joe denies these allegations to George, who leaves the house, but just as Annie runs after him, Joe announces to Chris and Kate that in fact George's story is true.
Chris is appalled, not only by the fact that this father produced defective parts, but that Joe lied to put Steve in prison, and went on to make money off the factory in the post-war boom. Chris feels complicit in his father's immorality, and goes for a drive that evening, while Joe and Kate cry on the back porch of the house.
At the end of the play, it is two in the morning the next day, and Chris returns from his drive to find Annie, Joe and Kate outside. Annie, who wants to make Kate believe that Larry is really dead so that she and Chris can be married, shows Kate a letter that Larry wrote the day before his death, in which he said that his plane "Missing Will" commits suicide, due to the shame Larry feels for Joe and Steve's crime. Joe, who has long comforted himself with the idea that he was not responsible for his son's death, realizes, when Chris reads the letter aloud, that he has not only killed 21 pilots-he Indirectly he has also killed his son. own son. Joe remarks that "all the soldiers . . . are his sons," and goes upstairs to say that he will turn himself in to the small town jail. But a gunshot is heard; Joe has killed himself in the house, and though Chris tells his mother, outside, that he didn't intend for this to happen, Kate tells Chris and Annie, calmly, to go far away and start a new family elsewhere, since the guilt that has ravaged the Keller family can bring them nothing but harm. The play ends.
21 авг 2024
