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I usually do not like comedies but this dark comedy is so supreme and the matter at hand, of marriage and different expectations and illusion and truth, is been dealt with so delicately interspersed with laughing. In the beginning, I was bored, which affects my further reading of this play, and the reason for being bored was the monotonous sentence structure for all four characters. I think it is making the characters entirely the same, the characters ought to be distinct. But no, later in the play, I realized that's what Mr. Albee wants to show. The same characters. We see "Honey" who is weak, confused, and she has very little to say when she says something she is complying with whatever is being said. We have a back story of this character; she is like this because she cannot have a child. And considering the era, she is afraid of doing anything, fearing her husband might leave her. At the same time, we know she is rich and her husband is not mad enough to do that. It seems Martha and George have met their younger selves and the problems that they are having right now and the kind of dark, harsh, raging discussions and illusions they have now it would be and could be the future of Honey and Nick. By that, I think, Edward Albee is implying the fault in "American Values" of the time which will affect anyone whose marriage is not congruent as it is thought of. So, their sentence structure for dialogues are entirely the same but the story, through the story, and their games, we catch a glimpse of that somehow they are the same too.