A reader reading Albee will not fail to notice tricks of language in operation; a more interesting analysis is to consider how the characters themselves are aware of language, of reading and being read, as a text, by other characters. Albee's plays, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women, show the obsession with language and its functions, both good and terrifying. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is as much about censorship, the attempts …showed first 75 words of 2719 total…

…showed last 75 words of 2719 total…and C's first lover correctly identifies the kind of person she is, and in the same way C comes to understand who she is in relationship to A and B. Both identifications are the play's answer to the Sphinx-like riddle proposed at the beginning. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Three Tall Women show Albee's delight in the flexibility of language to perform just about anything a human being can think to make it do.