NO EXIT: Reading Notes

- Valet brings Garcin into a room with Second Empire style furniture, though Garcin is expecting torture devices. After he realizes he isn't being tortured he asks for a toothbrush, which Valet finds amusing but normal.
#1- Yes, my own hell would probably be an empty room as well.
#2- Hell could really be anything without a break, no matter how much you usually enjoy it in normal doses.
- Garcin learns that he can no longer sleep and that also the lights never go out, which he doesn't react well too. He is a romantic thinker and speaks a lot about his thoughts.
#3- Not being able to sleep could be enough to be hell for me, honestly. Garcin first is restless and beats the doors before finally giving up and accepting his fate.
- Inez enters and assumes that Garcin is the torturer because he looks afraid, but Garcin refuses to believe he looks afraid. Next Estelle enters and begins to talk about how horrible the couches are. Garcin admits he would rather be alone. Inez is not polite.
- The three "absentees" talk about how they died. It seems that they can see what is happening in the lives of their families, all who are attending their funerals.
-They talk of why they would be put together, of which they are not sure. They all thought they would be with old friends or relatives. It seems that Inez is attracted to Estelle.
-Estelle claims that she does not know why she was sent here and they she lived a good life.
- Garcin pretends he has no idea either, and that maybe it was because he wrote a newpaper and was a pacifist in a war time.
- Inez says that is was no mistake and that they are all murderers, which upsets the other two. She also figures out that they were places together to torture each other. Garcin suggests that they don't talk then.
- Estelle becomes distraught when she realizes she has no way to see herself, so Inez offers to be her mirror. They argue on how Estelle really wants the attention of Garcin, who acts like he wants nothing to do with her.
- They all admit their true sins. Garcin abused his wife. Inez had an affair with her cousin's wife. Estelle killed her child and cheated on her husband.
- Garcin gives into Estelle but is more focused on the people he knew on Earth talking about him, and saying that he was a coward.
- Garcin kisses Estelle while Inez watches, screaming, but wants trust from her more then physical needs and her to say that he is not a coward, though he was killed for running away.
"Hell is other people"