Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf :: Whos Afraid Virginia Woolf Essays

Whos hydrophobic of Virginia Woolf           For this book talk, I read an Edward Albees play, Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf. I saw the movie version of this book, which I found excellent, so it inspired me to read the book.           The book begins when George, who is an associate professor of a mod England college, and Martha, who is the daughter of the college professor comes home after a faculty party. Although it is wellspring after midnight and they are heavily drunk, Martha invites another geminate, Nick who is a saucily and young professor in the college, and his wife sexual love. The two couples continue imbibition at the living room of George and Marthas house, and Martha starts complaining about George. She reveals Georges failure to recruit in the college even if he has an advantage as the parole-in-law of the president. George tries to revenge by give tongue toing Marthas weaknesses to the gue sts, and the fight becomes impossible to stop making the new couple who tries to stay detached also become caught up in it. As the fight goes on and they become to a greater extent drunk, Martha comes to mention about George and shes complex number parole, who has been a secret surrounded by them and a forbidden topic to tell others. Nick also tells their painful secret that he married Honey because she thought she was pregnant but that it turned out to be false. When everyone is devolve and humiliated as a result, George, who was very angry about Marthas mentioning his son to the guests, he decides to tell something that will change their lives forever as a final revenge, and then the party comes to an end.           The main theme of the book is the grief and difficulties of the adult life. In the story, George and Martha cannot have a child because either of them is impotent, so they had to make up an imaginary son. Heres a quotation about th eir son form Martha. QUOTATION(p219) Marthas this description about him shows how much they cared for him and wanted the real one. Furthermore, they invariably fight with each other for trivial subjects even though they rightfully want to communicate more seriously and understand deeper. The difference between their view of life also worsens their marriage because Martha always expects George to be more ambitious while George does not