All My Sons Morality and Ethics Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
| Quote #4 Keller: I want him to know, Annie… while he's sitting there I want him to know that when he gets out he's got a place waitin' for him. It'll take his bitterness away. To know you got a place… it sweetens you. (2.158) |
So what do you think: How much of this is Joe truly reaching out to his old colleague? How much of it is Joe covering his tracks?
| Quote #5 Mother: While you were getting mad about Fascism Frank was getting into her bed. |
Like Chris, George comes back disillusioned from the war. Faced with the banal reality of late '40s America, they can't understand what they were fighting for in the first place.
| Quote #6 George: [to Ann] He simply told your father to kill pilots, and covered himself in bed! (2.485) |
George seems to react more strongly to the betrayal of his father than to the original crime of shipping bad parts.
