![]() ![]() ![]() Not wanting to slow business he sent out a batch that he knew to be defective, and twenty-one pilots died as a result. By the close he seems to at last accept that this is in part due to his own diligence, w hich allows him to finally enjoy the fruits of his work and embrace his wife and child (in an earlier novelisation of this story Miller had Beeves commit suicide at the close, but in the play he just has Beeves consider the possibility, but decide against it).Īll My Sons (1947) Joe Keller, is an apparently successful businessman who made his fortune by selling airplane parts to the army during World War Two. He expects his garage to fail, his son to be born dead, his mink farm to be devasted, but he is repeatedly rewarded with a healthy son and success, even when his fellow businessmen go broke. Thinking that at any moment his luck must run out and disaster will strike, Beeves begins to live his life in constant fear, refusing to accept his good fortune, and at one point even contemplating suicide. Beeves gets to marry the girl of his dreams despite her disapproving father, and become a successful businessman as he takes one risky decision after another that each comes out well, while his brother Amos loses his chance to pitch in the baseball big leagues when he freezes up on the scout’s visit, and tu rns on the father he feels misled him in such a dream. The Man Who Had All the Luck (1944) The play depicts a young man, David Beeves, who has a hard time dealing with his good luck, especially when he sees his no less deserving brother have no luck at all. ![]()
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