By Eric Houdek
As Erica had stated, Waiting for Godot is different from reality because the characters from within have short term memory lapses. Thus, the characters are not the most reliable and do not really have an idea about what is going on. Through using short term memory, the whole premise of the stoy becomes ambiguous, perhaps extending the story to all of mankind. While the short term memory displayed by the characters leaves the characters as appearing feeble minded and having no chance of understanding of the things going on around them, perhaps Beckett is suggesting that mankind is too feeble minded to understand the reasons for its own existence.