No Exit Daily Writing Pgs. 1-17

The play, No Exit greatly interprets the use of existentialism upon which the three characters are isolated from the real world and the perspectives of their peers. The lack of glass in the room heightens this ideal in which it is up to the characters to either rely on their inmates to defy who they are, or to rely on their self to defy their image. Garcin frighteningly exclaims, "How beastly of them! They've removed everything int he least resembling a glass" (9). The glass symbolizes a lack of perception for the characters to visualize themselves physically, therefore they become unaware of their true presence.
It becomes clear through the text that the three characters have no common traits upon their deaths or previous lives. Garcin dies from being shot twelve times, Inez is suffocated by the gas stove, and Estelle dies of pneumonia. However, all three characters have different theories upon why they share the same room. Garcin considers it all to be a "fluke" and Estelle happens to think it is chance they arrive in the same room together. Inez, on the other hand, refers to the room as predetermined fate, "I tell you they've thought it all out. Down to the last detail. Nothing was left to chance. This room was all set for us" (14). Inez portrays that the Second Empire furniture and surroundings to Paris and this idea to the French audience that Hell exists upon earth, not only in a mental state of mind.
The constant lurk of the Valet with his eyelid-less glare can be conveyed to the troubling Nazi presence in the mid 1940s in Paris. Garcin states to the Valet, "Four thousand little respites-just think!...So that's the idea. I'm to live without eyelids" (6). The Valet never blinks for he never loses sight of the residents in the room of the Second Empire furniture, and thus his looming presence always remains in the room. The lack of eyelids can also represent the inability to escape from fear, Garcin must keep his eyes open and witness the torture and pain yet to come.