"But the main thing for me, having read and seen the play many times since its appearance about fifty years ago, is that it is about waiting, about unending expectation, about the moment that comes before something which itself never comes, but which in the process reduces everyone to a frozen state of clown-like, pathetic, banality in which only limited motion is possible in virtually the same places." - (Edward Said: 'Waiting for the Change') …showed first 75 words of 1720 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1720 total…world in which he can no longer rely in the traditional "props" to his existence; society is non-existent; brotherhood is meaningless; and religion brings on fulfillment. And so he does all he can. He passes the time. He hopes for something new, though the hope is dispirited and lifeless. He simply waits. What it is he waits, he is not sure. But he feels compelled to wait. Waiting turns out to be a deadening habit.