The American Dream?

A detailed Summary of The American Dream?

In Edward Albee's play Who's Afraid of Virginia

Woolf, Albee reveals the shallowness and meaninglessness

of modern society, and exposes the falsity of "The American Dream." In doing this, he refers to many different facets of society such as alcohol, social conventions, measures of success and corruption on a number of levels. Violence manifested in both language and action, reflect the frustration of the characters in not being able to live up to society's expectations.

"The America Dream" is a life lived to, or close to,

perfection, but the american dream is just what is says, it is just a "dream." It is a dream dreamt by many. Edward Albee takes this american dream and conveys it in its true form in his play. In writing this play, he exposes the falseness of the american dream and shows the audience what this dream really consists of. The american dream does have its definition, but since it is only a dream, reality in comparison is almost an exact opposite. This reality is full of illusion, falseness, and deceit.

In his play, Albee takes western society as a whole and

places it under one household. He shows what western society is through his characters. He shows the american dream in it's true form and not a

Truth and illusion-who knows the difference through the play? In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee has been successful in conveying the falseness of "The American Dream." He has taken western society as it is today as whole and has shown his audience the reality of the american dream in its true form. He has made clear that the american dream is only an illusion. The play is his, demonic urge to expose what he takes to be the falseness of the "American Dream."

to tell the difference between the true reality around her and the reality that she has created. "You can't kill him! You can't have him die!"(108)

Nick and Honey represent the many young couples in today's society. They were married at a young age, and married for a non-traditional reason because "she blew up."(46) They know from what they have been told through their education but they still do not have knowledge from their own experience to life. In only recently coming to town, Albee uses this to convey the message that Nick and Honey have only recently arrived to life and reality. As the night continues, increasingly do Nick and Honey learn just like how any teenager today would learn about life and society as it is today. They learn about the falseness of the american dream and what it truly is.

Martha has not taken life and reality as it is and just tried to live with it. She is unable to cope with reality and so creates her own reality. Howev

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Approximate Word count = 974
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)

Category: English