SECONDARY QUOTATIONS

• 'i believe that the common man is as apt a subject for tragedy in its highest sense as Kings were'

  Millers notion of the common man.
• 'the flaw, or crack in the characters, is really nothing... but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity, his image of his rightful status.' Arthur Miller
• 'it is the common man who knows this fear (of being displaced / losing everything) best'

  He lives with much more than someone born into wealthy, status and privilege. Links to Millers own family as they fell from wealth due to the economic crash and great depression.
• Miller: 'keller is not a partner in society but an incorporated member.' 


  Meaning, the character has bought into a corrupt system he partly created himself through an immoral decision.
• 'undisturbed normality of suburban life.' 


  Miller
• 'i don't see how he could've survived this, psychologically. He would've had to destroy himself.'
• ' When one refuses to accept his freedom and denies his responsibility to society, he lives in bad faith. All My Sons shows the danger of such bad faith by exploding what Miller calls the “exclusiveness” of private life in America.' Critic Centola.
• 'Arthur Miller’s plays depict the human tendency of self-deception, betrayal and guilt which leads to the deterioration and the collapse of human values.' critc
• 'understandable but unacceptable' Miller on Keller
• “resentment and hatred for his father.” Miller on Chris
• “with him [the truth] is buried deeper because it is so intolerable – the idea of his betraying him and his comrades – that he simply will not consider it.” Miller on Chris
• “The broken promise of the past.” Miller on George
• “Kate knows everything from the time the curtain goes up” Miller on Kate
• ;Kate's obsession with [Larry's] fate makes her behave with callous disregard for the future of [Chris]" Bigbsy
• 'motivated by her loneliness and desperation' Thind on Ann.