All My Sons
... no difference in his eyes, because as he sees it, he acted by a code of rules that is accepted on everyone in the real world. If Chris can not see that, then he doesn’t live in the real world, he lives in a phony world of spoiled people, who can afford themselves values higher than money. Joe Keller can’t afford himself those values, because he has a family to support. “I spoiled the both of you. I should’ve put him out when he was ten like I was put out, and made him earn his keep. Then he’d know how a buck is made in this world. Forgiven! I could live on a quarter a day myself, but I got a family.” Joe Keller prefers to think that money is all that mutters in this world, and the one that go against him in the play is his son, Chris. Chris was a soldier in the war, and his war-experience changed him. He saw in the war the love that men can have for one another. He saw his soldiers die so other could live. In the war, he learned all about the values of friendship, dignity and honor. His attitude for money is very different from his father’s. He believes that money pulls out the bad side in the person. He hates the fact that people run after money, and that in the modern world money has become a value higher than the values he believes him. In his eyes, money shouldn’t be a value at all. For Chris, the values that his soldiers died for are far more important than money. His father’s statement about the value of money is the last thing that he wants to hear, because that means that the world is really “a zoo”. If everything is ...