When Martha did a party, she started breaking the rules of intimacy, such intimacy seem to be very fragil as the intention of having the secret of a false son is to protect themselves from being judged. The son then, represents their marriage... The only way to have a son is to invent one, a son made of words, words that connect George and Martha. At the begining it worked, the complicity of having a false history to tell made them feel closer to each other, but when other characters interfere their lie, and so their marriage, became a nightmare.
Moreover, George and Martha seem to rely on that son to create the roots of their lives.
"George: the one thing in this whole sinking wolrd that I am sure of is my [...] chromosomological partnership in the creation of our blond-eyed, blue-haired...son."
all the reality, all the happiness of the couple are really just agreed upon illusions. And the worst part is that at some point somebody will have the need to tell the truth.
"Martha: Georgie boy had lots of big ambitions. In spite of something funny in his past. […] Which Georgie boy here turned into […] A novel all about a naught boy child […] who killed his mother and father dead. […]
George: STOP IT, MARTHA!"
George: STOP IT, MARTHA!"
In this particular quote we realize that there are more than just one lie in which they agreed, in George's novels (life) to tell. Are we living a fantasy ? or are we being real?. Al in all I don't think we can just decide to be in one side, sometimes we just need that kind of illusion to be accepted by others or even by ourselves.
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