Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf
The American Dream was a significant concern of Albee's. In
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he explores the illusion of an
American dream that masks a core of destruction and failure.55 Writing during the Cold War, Albee was responding to a public that was just beginning to question the patriotic assumptions of the 1950's. His
George and Martha reference patriotic namesakes George and Martha
Washington. Albee uses this symbolic first couple's unhappy marriage as a microcosm for the imperfect state of America.56
When George and Martha's marriage is revealed to be a sham based on the illusion of an imaginary son, the viewer is led to question the illusions that similarly prop up the American dream.57 Nick and
Honey, a conventional American
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, he explores the illusion of an
American dream that masks a core of destruction and failure.55 Writing during the Cold War, Albee was responding to a public that was just beginning to question the patriotic assumptions of the 1950's. His
George and Martha reference patriotic namesakes George and Martha
Washington. Albee uses this symbolic first couple's unhappy marriage as a microcosm for the imperfect state of America.56
When George and Martha's marriage is revealed to be a sham based on the illusion of an imaginary son, the viewer is led to question the illusions that similarly prop up the American dream.57 Nick and
Honey, a conventional American