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Martha: She is nasty-vicious, merciless and hungry after a strong reaction of George. As the reaction comes it destroys Martha.
George: He swallows all the malices of Martha, hoping that he himself can procure a little silence in his life, and he makes this through ignorance and thick-skinness. As this seems no longer possible, he grabs for the last means. Because the father-in-law of George is president of the college, it puts him in an unusually ambiguous relation to both his employer and his wife Martha, and it puts Martha in a position emphasizing the matrilineal heritage of power.
Nick: He is a young lecturer and he washes between adaption, weak out-breaks of self-confidence and half-hearted tries, to protect his wife. His career stands in the centre of his life, and his wife is only a tiresome, even when she is a attractive addition regarding money. He seems to represent everything the American dream was about, he is good looking and ambitious.
Honey: She is a little rural-fairly stupid, she drinks too much, and she doesn't understand any irony. Even as George makes jokes about her, she doesn't recognize it for a long time. Her collapses stay temporary, because she doesn't think really about it. After ten minutes in the bath-room she comes again merrily-naive along.
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