Arthur Miller,who was one of the greatest American playwrights of the 20th century.In All My Sons,different sorts of denials lead to the family’s collapse and Keller’s death.Paradoxically,the very denial that is designed to protect him from prosecution and incarceration is followed by a chain of events that lead to Keller’s own self-imprisonment and self-imposed execution.Denial also exists in the history of some countries,such as Germany,Japan and America and so on.My paper aims to explore the paradox of denial both in our history and in literature works.My paper will demonstrate that denial has some negative effects both on the outer-world and the inner-world through thorough analysis on the characters in All My Sons.
