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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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bookshelves: plays
Apr 05, 2013
bookshelves: plays
Read 2 times. Last read April 5, 2022 to April 6, 2022.
MARTHA “I swear … if you existed I’d divorce you …”
John Gottman, who wrote Why Marriages Succeed or Fail (1995), said that the number one predictor of divorce is contempt. Somehow or other, though, one is convinced that the witheringly contemptuous George and Martha will be tethered to one another ‘til death does them part, even if as mutual homicides.
But what is it with American playwrights and dysfunctional families: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This is a powerful play, no two ways about it. Still, I now want to go read Our Town to detoxify myself.
John Gottman, who wrote Why Marriages Succeed or Fail (1995), said that the number one predictor of divorce is contempt. Somehow or other, though, one is convinced that the witheringly contemptuous George and Martha will be tethered to one another ‘til death does them part, even if as mutual homicides.
But what is it with American playwrights and dysfunctional families: Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Glass Menagerie, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? This is a powerful play, no two ways about it. Still, I now want to go read Our Town to detoxify myself.
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