All My Sons

All My Sons

1. Responsibility

   • Keller: they were all my sons (3)
   • George: On the telephone you can't have responsibility (2)
   • Chris: Man for man (2)
   • Keller: For both of you, that's all I ever lived for.. (3)
   • Sue: Chris makes people want to be better than it's possible to be (2)
   • Mother: You can't bull yourself through this one, Joe.. be smart now (3)
   • Mother: All your life whenever there's trouble you yell at me and you think that settles it (3)
   • Chris: Every time I reach out for something I want, I have to pull back because other people will suffer (1)
   • Keller: You're a considerate fella, there's nothing wrong in that (1)
   • Chris: I've been a good son too long, a good sucker. I'm through with it (1)
   • Chris: He murdered twenty-one pilots (1)
   • Jim: Mother McKeller
   • Keller: A man can't be a Jesus in this world! (3)

2. Wealth

   • George: Everything they have is covered with blood (2)
   • Chris: The business doesn't inspire me (1)
   • Sue: And he's got money. That's important (2)
   • Keller: Must you be inspired? (1)
   • Chris: If I have to grub for money all day long.. I want it beautiful (1)
   • Sue: I resent living next door to the Holy Family. It makes me look like a bum (2)
   • Keller: If it's dirty then burn it.. It's your money (3)

3. Hope for Larry's return

   • Kate: Kate asked you to make a horoscope? (1)
   • Mother: That's the third time you've said that this week (1)
   • Mother: There are meanings in such things (1)
   • Frank: The trouble with you is, you don't believe in anything / Jim: And your trouble is that you believe in anything (1)
   • Keller: I had two sons, now I got one (1)
   • Keller: From Mother's point of view he is not dead and you have no right to take his girl (1)
   • Ann: The shoes are all shined (1)
   • Mother: Till he comes; forever and ever till he comes! (2)
   • Chris: Stop filling her head with that junk! (2)

4. Blame and Guilt

   • George: His father destroyed your family (2)
   • George: He promised to take responsibility (2)
   • Chris: I was dying every day and you were killing my boys and you did it for me?
   • Mother: I've got such a funny pain on the top of my head (1)
   • Keller: The minute there's trouble you have no strength (3)
   • Chris: Only the dead ones weren't practical (3)
   • Keller: There are certain men in the world who would rather see everybody hung before they'll take blame (2)
   • Mother: Your brother's alive.. if he's dead, your father killed him (2)
   • George: You know in your heart Joe did it (2)

5. Family

   • Keller: a daughter is a daughter, and a father is a father (2)
   • Keller: My only accomplishment is my son (2)
   • Ann: Father or no father, there's only one way to look at him (1)
   • Ann: You're the only one I know who loves his parents
   • Keller: I'm his father and he's my son, and if there's something bigger than that I'll put a bullet in my head! (3)
   • Mother: There something bigger than the family to him (3)

6. Release of tensions

   • George: What happened that day, Joe? / Frank enters briskly.. holding Larry's horoscope (2)
   • Keller: What's your Mother going to say? / Bert runs on from the driveway (1)
   • Ann: Don't George - you're not going to start anything now! / Mother enters on porch (2)
   • Mother (at least confessing the tension) / Lydia enters on porch (2)

7. War

   • Keller: It changed all the tallies (1)
   • Keller: I've had two sons, now I got one (1)
   • Mother: While you were getting mad about Fascism Frank was getting into her bed (2)
   • George: He'd like to take every man who made money in the wall and put him up against a wall (2)