ience for his own theatrical purposes). We see this when George intentionally pays no attention to Martha as she tries all the harder to win his interest:
George: No, no now…you go right ahead…you entertain your guests.
Martha: I’m going to entertain myself, too.
Martha: Ha, ha. You’re a riot George.
Martha: Well, I’m a riot, too, George.
Martha: You know what I’m doing George?
George: No, Martha…what are you doing?
Martha: I’m entertaining. I’m entertaining one of the guests. I’m necking with one of the guests.
George: Oh, that’s nice. Which one?
The meaning of the title represents the fear that is created in people by other people and the somewhat innate inability for us to be able to gain a closer understanding of one another from the one source largely available to us for that, language. It also refers to the fear of being replaced as we evolve in life and those who come behind us have a certain degree of evolution that may surpass our own, or in the worst cases, completely erode everything we have spent our lives doing. George and Nick represent this in the play because George is the old school Jeffersonian who is terrified that Nick will replace his kind and creed completely because they have been raised in an era which glorified capitalism and success for its own sake to the degree where they are almost robotic in their desire to succeed at any cost. This is evidenced when George says he will fight Nick’s kind even if he has
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