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Use of language Pinter uses language in many different ways in "The Homecoming". One of the most prominent ways is the meaning behind what is actually being outwardly said. Language is like a game where personal attacks are couched in the strategic use of polite enquiries, but are really malicious and destructive. There is also a large amount of sub-text, and a lot of it is expressed within mixed meanings of what is being vocalised - "Lenny: But I'm your son. You used to tuck me up in bed every night. He tucked you up too, didn't he, Joey? Pause He used to like tucking up his sons." This gives off slight implications that Max used to abuse his children when they where younger. In "The Homecoming", Pinter really shows how language can not be trusted and that thought and the unconscious must be trusted as it is what someone is really meaning and...

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