Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

How might Honey better represent Second-Wave Feminism than Martha?

Has to prove that she better represents second-wave feminism.

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Sorry, I’m not too familiar with the “second wave of feminism”. Honey is Nick's twenty-six-year-old wife. She's frail and "slim-hipped." Honey is rich, left money by her late evangelist father. She drowns her sorrows in brandy, getting silly and childlike. She suffered a hysterical pregnancy, which led Nick to marry her. While drunk, she confesses to George her fear of the pain of childbirth and of getting pregnant ­ which she is, unbeknownst to Nick, preventing secretly. Drunk and throwing up in the bathroom for most of the play, Honey is the most innocent of all the characters. Her immediate reactions to the chaos around her function as a sort of Greek chorus on George and Martha's marriage. She represents the fear of many women of conforming to traditional feminine roles.

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