ALL MY SONS by Arthur Miller

MOTHER
I was fast asleep, and — Remember the way he used to fly low past the house when he was in
training? When we used to see his face in the cockpit going by? That’s the way I saw him.
Only high up. Way, way up, where the clouds are. He was so real I could reach out and touch
him. And suddenly he started to fall. And crying, crying to me...Mom, Mom! I could hear him
like he was in the room. Mom! ... it was his voice! If I could touch him I knew I could stop him, if
I could only - I woke up and it was so funny - The wind ... it was like the roaring of his engine. I
came out here. I must’ve still been half asleep. I could hear that roaring like he was going by.
The tree snapped right in front of me - and I like – came awake. See?
We should never have planted that tree. I said so in the first place; it was too soon to plant a
tree for him.