Author: Samuel Beckett<br />File Type: pdf<br />In IHappy DaysI, Samuel Beckett pursues his relentless search for the meaning of existence, probing the tenuous relationships that bind one person to another, and each to the universe, top time past and time present. Once again, stripping theater to its barest essentials, IHappy DaysI offers only two characters Winnie, a woman of about fifty, and Willie, a man of about sixty.BRIn the first act Winnie is buried up to her waist in a mound of earth, but still has the use of her arms and few earthly possessions&#151toothbrush, tube of toothpaste, small mirror, revolver, handkerchief, spectacles in the second act she is embedded up to her neck and can move only her eyes. Willie lives and moves&#151on all fours&#151behind the mound, appearing intermittently and replying only occasionally into Winnie&#8217s long monologue, but the knowledge of his presence is a source of comfort and inspiration to her, and doubtless the prerequisite for all her &#147happy days.&#8221