“All My Sons” -Act 3

• Prosperity/Capitalism/US Boom/American Dream

• Father-son relation x2• Family/ies

relationship/s• Death• Dishonesty vs.

Honesty• Hope vs. Reality

• War• Consequences of war• Romanticism• Forgiveness/

Acceptance• Negation/Denial• Post war crisis• Death• Treason/Betrayal• Prison

Themes

ChrisGuilty feelings. He came back, Larry didn’t.

Will marry Ann. Betray his brother.

Jim “already knew”He isn’t happy with his well-paid job.

Moneycapitalism

Joe shocked at Chris’ reaction

Dead insideHe can’t lie, not his nature

GuiltyHis father is an imbecileHe came back from war

Fell for his brother’s fiancée

Trouble yell

“There is something bigger than family for him”Honesty To everybody

MONEY

- War can change a person.

- “If Larry was alive...” Comparing both sons

- The engine did not fail

- “I am not human anymore”

-We all know he was bad but not from his father Man vs. Father

Chris believes he needs to be perfect

Makes mistakes, human.

Man vs. Man

One of his sons commited suicide because he couldn’t handle the guilt.

Another is a living dead, because of guilt.

They feel the guilt that the father does not feel

- Larry considered his family, his sons

- Prison or kill yourself

Family illusions shatteredReality destroyed the falsehood of the family

Everything was an illusion until Ann came and brought reality