خلاصه ماشینی:
"At the very onset of the play, when Albert and his mother are arguing about the cellar and the light bulbs, he complains that "[he does] not know why [they] keep bulbs in the cellar!" (Pinter 6).
Then, when Albert expresses his love to his mother, she wants him to stay with her so that they can have their game of cards.
Albert hides all his intention of having any relationship with other people in a way that he turns out to be, in his friends’ opinions, "deep and secretive and does not let much slip" (Pinter 14).
But even when Gidney finds out it was Mr. Ryan who touched Eileen, he unconsciously represses his hearings and keeps inveighing Albert; at this stage his selective perception defense is in progress.
At the beginning of the third act, after having a struggle with his mother, when the prostitute appears on the stage and offers him to go with her, Albert readily accepts it.
(39; Act 3) When she goes further on talking about the continuity girls and secretaries, she reveals her intention by saying that picking men up when one’s husband is out on business is fantastic.
(40; Act 3) Albert gets defensive as soon as the girl starts giving him orders which are related to squeaky cleanliness and immaculacy.
Albert escapes from his dominating mother; at the party he faces the seduction of the girls from the typing pool which reminds him of the other aspect of women, i."