Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Martha enters the empty living room. She talks to herself and calls for George but receives no response. She makes a drink and has an imaginary manic conversation with her husband, in which they both agree that they misjudged each other. Martha screams at everyone and then talks to her father, crying out in baby-talk that she has been left alone. Martha shouts again, demanding that they all come back and telling her daddy that she and Georgie cry all the time, and they freeze their tears into ice cubes for their drinks.

When Nick enters, she is shaking the ice in her glass and repeating, “CLINK!” (186) Nick watches and declares that she has lost her mind like everyone else. He found Honey in the bathroom, peeling the label off a brandy bottle, and she had winked at him. Martha doesn’t know where George has gone. Martha waves him off, telling him, “Relax; sink into it; you’re no better than anybody else” (188), and Nick disagrees. Through her drink, Martha mumbles pointedly, “You’re certainly a flop in some departments” (188).

Nick defends himself by saying that Martha thinks that every man is a flop.