what is going on most of the evening. She does not see the meaning of the jokes told or understand the double meanings that George and Martha toy with, but by the end of the evening she has been changed as she has come to question herself and to doubt Nick as she never wanted to do.
in the beginning, Nick and Honey are shocked by George and Martha's funny, profound, and often cruel "fun and games." They begin to participate as they drink more and so loosen up, though Nick has a better understanding of the way the evening is progressing than does his naive and less intellectual wife. The couple is contrasted in several ways. George is older, and as a professor of history, he is always looking to the past for answers. He admits this himself: "I am preoccupied with history" (50). He delves deeply into his and Martha's past, for instance, and always keeps the past alive, never letting old slights disappear completely. Nick is a biology teacher and so has a more preset-oriented pe
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