Honey is Nick’s wife, a couple of years his junior, and is described as petite and plain. She is clearly not very intelligent, and becomes drunk very quickly, retiring to lie on the bathroom floor and peel labels off alcohol bottles. It is evident that Nick, handsome and intelligent, feels he deserves better, and he ultimately confesses to George that he only married Honey because of a hysterical pregnancy and his parents’ expectations. Honey, like Martha, it turns out, cannot have children and is distraught by her infertility. She is clearly the weakest character in the play and spends much of the play offstage.
Honey Quotes in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf quotes below are all either spoken by Honey or refer to Honey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Ha, ha, ha, HA! Make the kids a drink, George. What do you want, kids? What do you want to drink, hunh?
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It was a hysterical pregnancy. She blew up, and then she went down.
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Just before we got married, I developed…appendicitis…or everybody thought it was appendicitis…
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You told them! OOOOHHHH! OH, no, no, no, no! You couldn’t have told them…
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Honey Quotes in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf
The Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf quotes below are all either spoken by Honey or refer to Honey. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Act 1
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Ha, ha, ha, HA! Make the kids a drink, George. What do you want, kids? What do you want to drink, hunh?
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Act 2
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It was a hysterical pregnancy. She blew up, and then she went down.
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Just before we got married, I developed…appendicitis…or everybody thought it was appendicitis…
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You told them! OOOOHHHH! OH, no, no, no, no! You couldn’t have told them…
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