All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Author:Arthur Miller [Miller, Arthur]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9780241960103
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2011-08-03T16:00:00+00:00

ANN: Simply because when you get excited you don’t control yourself… . [MOTHER comes out of house.] Well, what did he tell you for God’s sake? [Pause] All right, come then. [Pause] Yes, they’ll all be here. Nobody’s running away from you. And try to get hold of yourself, will you? [Pause] All right, all right. Goodbye.

[There is a brief pause as Ann hangs up receiver, then comes out of kitchen.]

CHRIS: Something happen?

KELLER: He’s coming here?

ANN: On the seven o’clock. He’s in Columbus. [To MOTHER] I told him it would be all right.

KELLER: Sure, fine! Your father took sick?

ANN [mystified]: No, George didn’t say he was sick. I … [Shaking it off ] I don’t know, I suppose it’s something stupid, you know my brother … [She comes to CHRIS.] Let’s go for a drive, or something …

CHRIS: Sure. Give me the keys, Dad.

MOTHER: Drive through the park. It’s beautiful now.

CHRIS: Come on, Ann. [To them] Be back right away.

ANN [as she and CHRIS exit up driveway]: See you. [MOTHER comes down toward Keller, her eyes fixed on him.]

KELLER: Take your time. [To MOTHER] What does George want?

MOTHER: He’s been in Columbus since this morning with Steve. He’s gotta see Annie right away, he says.

KELLER: What for?

MOTHER: I don’t know. [She speaks with warning.] He’s a lawyer now, Joe. George is a lawyer. All these years he never even sent a postcard to Steve. Since he got back from the war, not a postcard.

KELLER: So what?

MOTHER [her tension breaking out]: Suddenly he takes an airplane from New York to see him. An airplane!

KELLER: Well? So?

MOTHER [trembling]: Why?

KELLER: I don’t read minds. Do you?

MOTHER: Why, Joe? What has Steve suddenly got to tell him that he takes an airplane to see him?

KELLER: What do I care what Steve’s got to tell him?

MOTHER: You’re sure, Joe?

KELLER [ frightened, but angry]: Yes, I’m sure.

MOTHER [she sits stiffly in a chair]: Be smart now, Joe. The boy is coming. Be smart.

KELLER [desperately]: Once and for all, did you hear what I said? I said I’m sure!

MOTHER [she nods weakly]: All right, Joe. [He straightens up.] Just … be smart. [KELLER, in hopeless fury, looks at her, turns around, goes up to porch and into house, slamming screen door violently behind him. MOTHER sits in chair downstage, stiffly, staring, seeing.]

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