Roy shows that that the beauty is only temporary when the play ends, the actors go "home to beat their wives." In this other world, imagination and acting is safer than reality. Even seemingly good dreams like the ones that Ammu has about a one armed man, are full of violence and danger. The dream that Ammu has is both strange and full of symbolism. Ammu is floating in a sea that is menacing and fearfull but she is floating with a one armed man, which means that he somehow lost the arm in an act of violence. When she is awoken by the twins, she says she was having a pleasant dream, it was both violent and pleasant.