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In fact George despises hypocrisy so greatly that he attempts to expel it from all their lives permanently, not just his and Martha's but also from Nick and Honey's marriage too. Some may argue that the ends do not justify the means, as his methods are rather cold and hurtful, but the end result is all that's important to George, with that being the expulsion of hypocrisy from their lives. Obviously the biggest expulsion of hypocrisy that George does is to destroy the kid' and this is something, which Martha is not ready to do, ever in the whole play. This killing of the kid' is vindictive and brutal but George sees the illusion of the kid' as something which is destroying their marriage and so he feels that a life without this hypocrisy will be worth it in the end. He is simply being cruel to be kind. .
Moreover, George begins his quest to expel hypocrisy from Nick and Honey's marriage fairly early on in the play, in Act I. He and Nick are talking about kids and George asks Nick ". How many kids you going to have?' To which Nick replies, I . . . I don't know . . . My wife is . . . and George carefully reminds him that in fact the reason why he does not know how many kids he will have is because his wife is slim-hipped. Here Nick was perhaps going to create another fazade as to why he does not know how many kids he will have, but George makes it painfully clear to him that his wife is slim-hipped' and hence does not have child baring hips and this is the true reason why Nick is unsure as to how many kids he and his wife will have. .
In Act II, George shatters the fazade, which is Nick and Honey's marriage. Here George's contempt for hypocrisy and his desire to rid all their lives of it becomes paramount, more so than any where else in play, although it can be argued it his desire becomes more paramount when he "kills the kid- but certainly this is one of the first overt examples of his quest to get rid of hypocrisy in its entirety.
