Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Visions of America Quotes Page 1
Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue.
| Quote #1 Honey: Oh, isn't this lovely. |
The attractive young couple's over-politeness in the face of their hosts' bitter disputes reveals just how fake they are. They seem to represent the image-obsessed America that came out during the 1950s. Over the course of the play their perfect façade is eroded just as America's image decayed in the 1960s.
| Quote #2 George: I read somewhere that science fiction is really not science fiction at all…that you people are rearranging my genes so that everyone will be like everyone else. (1.330) |
Throughout the play George equates genetics with the homogenization of culture that was present in America at the time of the play.
| Quote #3 George: I will not give up Berlin!(1.600) |
At the time of the play, America was in the midst of the Cold War with the U.S.S.R. Berlin was a hot bed of tension. This line draws connections between the characters' conflicts and that of America as a whole.
