In many plays, a character has a misconception of himself or his world. Destroying or perpetuating this illusion contributes to
a central theme of the play. Choose a play with a major character to whom this statement applies and write an essay in which you consider the following points: what the character's illusion is and how it differs from reality?
In All My Sons —one of Arthur Miller's most famous plays— one of the characters is Joe Keller. He is the breadwinner of his family and considers that nothing is more important than performing that role. Throughout the play we learn that he doesn't even care if the means to achieve it involve the suffering of others. At the end, we discover that in order to make some extra money, he sold faulty pieces of a plain to the US government and that resulted in the death of one of his sons who was in combat.
