‘Happy Days’ focuses on Winnie, a woman with her legs buried on a huge mound who relies on her non-communicative husband Willie, just to know what someone is listening to her. It is a play made of of a repetitive cycle of mundanity, but like I mentioned previously this works a lot better in Beckett’s plays as oppose to his prose. There is a foreboding sense of finality throughout however despite Winnie’s sweet but also sad optimism in life. Her dependence on Willie is desperate and she finds joy from him even saying a word to her each day, but in some way as Winnie is trapped in the mound Willie too is trapped with her, in a loveless marriage and circumstance. In Beckett’s usual tone it is an absurd setting which you could read so much meaning from, alike to the other works I have read by him in the last couple of days I am focusing on the aspects of dependency as a consequence of disability in my analysis of it. I was a little disappointed by

the role of the revolver however, the stage directions expressed an importance of this prop yet it failed in conforming to ‘Chekov’s gun’.

Instead the play remained stagnant in its conclusion, a typical Beckettian absence of hope or change.