My Reactions to Waiting for Godot

For the most part, my reactions to this play were a mix of confusion and outright astonishment. Some of the things that happen are so out of the realm of realistic understanding that I find myself just awed at the fact that it was said or done. For example when Pozzo is leading his slave around by a rope collared about the neck, I was almost disgusted. The man was full of himself, completely pompous and rude, yet, Didi and Gogo were not really effected by this. They had a discussion with him as if having a man tied by a long rope wasn't that strange. In fact, they made fun of the man and laughed about it.

Also when the men speak of hanging themselves I was confused. How is that a logical choice to these men? There was no despair in their speech. They did not seem at the end of the rope. They just assumed it was a good thing to do at the moment then debated against it. I had to look deeper into this to try to understand any metaphor or symbolisms inside but it still seems to me as if this story is meant to give the option of creating your own opinion.

To be honest, I think that this play has no real ending. It just goes back in an endles cycle and never stops. It is only different each day. They continue to wait, they think of hanging themselves, they see Pozzo again and so on and so on until the end of time because Godot is never going to come.