All My Sons is a powerful play that holds up to scrutiny an American story of success at a high cost and the devastation that malignant success brings to so many others. With this play Miller established himself as a major talent and voice of conscience. It is a study of the results of failure in family and social responsibility and is remarkable for its tightness of structure and its honest facing of the problem of how a man should act in the complicated modern world. It has been described as an Ibsenite play and certainly if we restrict Ibsen to the kind of play he wrote between The league of Youth (1869) and Rosmersholm (1886). According to Raymond Williams, “The similarities are indeed so striking that we could call All My Sons pastiche if the force of its conception were not so evident. It is perhaps that much rare case, of a writer who temporarily discovers in an existing form an exact way of realizing his own experience. At the centre of the play is the kind of situation which was Ibsen’s development of the device of the fatal secret.