All My Sons by Arthur Miller explores the relationship between father and son and how far a man is willing to go for his family and himself. The main character, Joe Keller, is a father who believed that his greatest success was his son and the business he created to provide for his family. In the true spirit of a businessman, Joe had to leapfrog others to reach the top and create his own thriving business that he desperately wants his son, Chris Keller, to embrace and be proud of. Joe's character has experienced trauma with the loss of his other son, Larry Keller, during World War II and the strain the loss had on his family's health and well-being that might make him seem worthy of pity. However, Joe's life contained multiple selfish decisions of fraud and corruption that spilled the blood of innocent young war heroes. Joe Keller is a self-centered man with a self-centered disposition to promote his own self-interest; he ruins the lives of others by causing death, madness, pain, loss of love and unjust imprisonment, making him a character unworthy of sympathy. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Joe Keller's selfishness stained his hands red as his actions led to young servicemen dying. Joe owned and operated a mass production factory that produced airplane parts during the war with his partner Herbert Deever. One night the machines produced more than a hundred defective warheads, and the next morning the Army began requesting more airplane parts, but the only ones available were the cracked ones. Under Joe's direction, Herbert illegally welded the cracks together and shipped the parts to the Army. Defective engine parts caused the deaths of twenty-one pilots during the war. When Chris finally learns the truth, after three years of his father deceiving him, Joe tells Chris, “I'm in a business, a man is in a business; one hundred and twenty cracks, you're out of business; you have a process, the process doesn't work you're out of business; you don't know how to operate, your things are not going well; they close you down,... what could I do, let them take away forty years from me, let them take away my life?” Joe selfishly felt that the business he had built for his family and his son, which he considered his life, was worth more than the innocent lives of those American soldiers to whom he had a duty to provide them with quality aircraft parts. Furthermore, Joe's greedy disposition to run a successful business not only killed men, but also sent his business partner, neighbor, and friend to prison for his own crime. When the process was producing the defective parts, Herbert called Joe from the factory to inform him of the problem and asked him what he should do. Joe refused to come to the factory, but told him on the phone to solder the cracks and ship the parts. Joe knew that a phone call would never be enough to incriminate him in court, because “you can't have any accountability over the phone.” When the law came knocking, Joe denied any connection to Herbert's actions and allowed his partner to take the blame. Joe was a free man while Herbert served a years-long sentence in prison. Joe spent years trying to justify to himself that his decisions were right because his business was his life and his legacy to his son Chris. However, his actions were purely selfish and devastating to those around him because Joe's self-interest killed men, ruined his friend's life, and allowed him to avoid criminal punishment. Some might argue that Joe Keller deserves sympathy.