In the play, All My Sons, by Arthur Miller, there are two main focal points, which are realism and the idealized and mythical American. Realism shows what really happens in life, with the family, and conflicts. It shows the ups and it's downs, not just the good part. The idealized and mythical focal point focus on what people want you to think and see, just the good apart of it all. It comes off as an American Dream, because only in an American Dream, can you have only the good part.
             Joe Keller can be an example of an idealized and mythical American. Everything is just so perfect and dandy for him, or that's what he makes it seem to be. Joe Keller was apart of a major crime, selling dysfunctional cylinder heads to P-40's causing them to crash and kill their passengers and pilots. Yes, he went to jail and that can't have a good part to it, but when he came back he brushed off his shoulders and made it seem like it wasn't anything big. He made everything bad, sugar-coated, to be good again. Bert, who plays jail with Keller, idealizes him and thinks of him as a hero, when in fact, Joe was basically a bad guy.
             Keller has money, a house and a nice car, but he still doesn't have the perfect life, like he makes it seem. He even tries to sugar-coat his family, and make it seem like they have the perfect family life, even though one son was unheard or "missing" since war. The whole time Joe Keller knew about his "missing" or, now known, son who killed himself. One of his sons seems to dislike him, and his wide is a wreck, but with all that he still seems like the happiest and luckiest man in the world. He doesn't show the bad side to his family, or what he has done, he just makes it seem as if everything is perfect, like a dream, the American Dream.
             Even the neighbors act as if everything is perfect. But in fact, the neighbors aren't that happy. All the neighbors act like they are best of friends, when they really have something ag...