Time.

I actually really enjoyed reading Waiting for Godot. It was a very easy read and it was very comical as well. My favorite character was Estragon because he seemed to be the most sarcastic of the characters, and also, ironically, the most impatient. One thing that confused me about this play was that the characters seemingly had no sense/knowledge or time or reality. What I mean is, they didn't know if the had been waiting for Godot the day before or a few days before, whether the boy had came to them with a message from Godot the night before or not, etc. It became somewhat hard to tell if they were dreaming all of this up or not. Well, now that I think about it, maybe it was supposed to be confusing to the reader in order to feel the confusion the characters may feel. Perhaps they had been waiting for Godot for so long, repeating the same cycle for so long, that they have lost all sense of time. Speaking of time, which Pozzo seems to be obsessed with, I find it funny that Pozzo didn't "decide to" go blind until AFTER he lost his watch. All of the suffering the characters experience are pretty much self-imposed; Estragon with his "too small" boots, Lucky's "stupidity", Pozzo's blindness, etc. Pozzo's watch is like Estragon's boots, a simple, everyday thing that it seems he simply can not function without. When he does lose it and is forced to live without it, he is thus forced to deal with time in the biological sense (his beating heart, which is measuring out the remainder of his life) rather than the material sense (his watch, which he had control of, just as he has control over Lucky), and I don't think he could deal with his own mortality. I was only left with only a few real questions at the end of the play: where is Godot? It seems as though Vladimir and Estragon didn't really know how he looked, so did he even physically exist or have human characteristics? Or is he representative of "Father Time" (technically, always present, but in somewhat of an uninvolved way)? You can spend your whole life waiting on time to pass, calculating/measuring time, etc., but as my family says, "time waits for no one."