Keller: (looking at letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, he was my son. But I think to him they were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were. I'll be right down. (exits into house)
As the American critic Harold Clurman pointed out, Miller’s real theme is the way a distorted individualism has replaced the idea of responsibility to the community.
看完後才驚覺中文片名翻譯的神來之筆，All my sons，不只是軍火商的那兩個孩子，還包含那兩個孩子於戰爭時，患難與痛苦產生的同袍之情，那使得中間容不下一粒沙子。
個體與社會、自我與外界，全部一起陷落。
凱特只要他好好活著。