Act to Mirrors a world of women and their cncerned in The Way of The World . Comment

Conversation focuses throughout the act on women and especially on relationships between women and women, women and men, and men and men. For example, Mirabell makes fun of women's relationships, insinuating that they are insincere but pretend to be devout, and Ms. Marwood argues back that the relationships between men are even more false. Congreve parodies these same-sex friendships and those between men and women by showing almost all of the characters of either gender being false to one another willy-nilly. This falseness is caused by the dual themes in Restoration Comedies of adultery and the importance of reputation, leading to intense subtext within and across genders especially regarding desire, hate, and trust.