Martha knows that she was mainly just an object they traded so that George could get a good job at college and Martha could finally remarry after her first disaster. Martha always sought to please her father by doing everything for him, even “repressing her own sexuality in the service of a socially acceptable vision of academic continuity” (Diamond). After facing difficulties alone, Martha succumbs to her father's demands and he forces her to return to New Carthage in order to ensure that she will continue to follow his path for her (Diamond). This relates to the typical aspects of a nuclear family and these are also visible through the fundamental interactions of all the characters. The two characters who show the clearest signs of typical actions through their conformity are George and Nick. These two men constantly fight on certain levels throughout the play in order to show who is more dominant in all different aspects of their lives. Their competitive acts relate directly to the concept that “George and Nick represent independent competing models of heterosexual masculinity” (Eby 601). ''As the mail I was processing had changed, during