AQA (A): Paper 2 Modern times (All My Sons and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
Both Arthur Miller’s All My Sons (1946) and Tennessee Williams’ Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) present families in which a waning patriarch is fixated on the idea of succession. In Joe Keller and Big Daddy, the audience meets two ageing fathers who are in contrasting states of decline. For Keller, a refusal to accept culpability for a past crime has seen the disintegration of his moral authority in the eyes of his family. For Big Daddy, however, terminal cancer poses a physical threat which he refuses to acknowledge.
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