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Mood/Tone:

The mood and tone of the book is very tense as the characters lie not only to each other, but also to themselves. Larry's death is a prime example. Keller and Chris have internal struggles about the knowledge of the defective parts while they lie to Mother and Ann. This creates a lot of tension between the characters and also leads to blame. Keller blames Steve for the faulty parts, George blames Keller for Steve's incarceration and Chris blames Keller for Larry's death. All this tension and blame give the reader an anxious feeling as well as a feeling of deceit and deviousness.

Summary: In the second meeting, we discussed the ending of the play. Matt and Eric believed that Keller should have committed suicide, but Joe and Adam believed that Keller should go to jail. We all believed that the mood was very tense because there was a lot of betrayal between characters. There is a lot of tension between both the Keller and Deever families; they blamed each other for the death of Larryl During this meeting, all of us ate Dominos pizza, bread sticks, and Diet Coke. We had a very nice time discussing the mood of the play and enjoyed talking about the play while listening to classical music and wearing preppy clothes.

Questions: 1**. What letter did Ann Show?** The letter was essentially Larry's suicide note. After seeing this Mother was now convinced that her son Larry was indeed dead.
 * 2. Does this play represent the american dream, like some of Miller's other plays?** No this play doesn't represent the American dream because Keller didn't die like Willy did. Willy killed himself because he couldn't be as successful as he wanted to be, but Keller killed himself because he was responsible for the death of 25 pilots and his own son.
 * 3. Who does Miller have a bad relationship with in real life, that he portrays through his plays?** Miller had a bad relationship with his father because in most of his books. The son is always arguing with the father, and the father sometimes dies.
 * 4. How did Larry die?** He killed himself because he was to ashamed of what his father had done.
 * 5. Did Kate know that Larry was dead?** Yes she knew he was dead because of the suicide note he wrote to her.