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George and Helen have this conversation in their honeymoon hotel room. Perhaps nowhere else in the play is their conversation more strained, as Helen passively rejects all of George’s attempts to make small talk. Of course, their failed communication is not Helen’s fault, since the stories George wants to tell in the first place are more for his own entertainment than for Helen’s sake. He even acknowledges that these stories—which Helen doesn’t care to hear—have benefitted him financially and that he “owe[s]” his “successes” to the fact that he always has a tale up his “sleeve.” In this moment, he…