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All My Sons -
Context
- Based on a true story of a woman who
turned her father in for supplying defective
parts to the army
- Miller took two and a half years to
write the play. When he started in
1945 he was 30 years old
- At the time there was a change in the role
of women as they were offered more jobs
due to men being in the war
- Money was more and more important at the
time, finance was a big part of life which
was the opposite of make do and mend
- A military minded person had pride,
respect, self discipline, emotional
detachment and didn't question authority
- There was a lot of death occuring at the time.
People were not returning home from the war and
that left gaps in families
- Communism, consumerism
and capitalism. The period of
the play coincides with the
development of the idea of "The
American Dream"
- 18 years previous the Wall Street Crash heralded
10 years of depression throughout America.
Miller's father lost his business and the failure of
capitalism is shown throughout All My Sons
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