This play is different from reality in the following ways:
(1) unusual names
(2) random tree on a hill as meeting place
(3) Lucky treated as a dog/slave on a leash.
(4) Curt conversations
(5) Short term memory lapses by the characters
(6) Pozzo becomes blind in one night and helpless in one night.
(8) Concept of time is skewed
(9) The day is repeated over again.
Erica,
I am a little confused about the last point in this entry. You say a way that it is different from reality is that it is repeated over again. However in the text, I thought that the first act was one day, and that the second act was the next. There are specific clues to this passage of time, though your impression that it is the same day repeated is extremely interesting. However, I think for the purposes of this play it is two separate days – I just wanted to clarify for the discussion of what the play is about. If this is not what you meant, please clarify. Thanks!
I had a combined reaction. I thought that the second act was the next day, but the days are so similar that passage of time becomes unimportant, and this bizarre wait continues on into infinite. Maybe the idea that what we do has not point, that our lives are pitiful wastes.
That was my take. I’ve got no idea if it’s right.