Waiting For Godot

The play/story starts off with two homeless men waiting for their acquaintance Godot to arrive, even though they don't really know what he looks like. They wait their for a long time, and basically just try to keep themselves occupied while they wait. The story is based around them trying to keep themselves occupied. The two characters are named Vladimir and Estragon. While waiting for their friend to arrive they discuss salvation and the two thieves crucified next to Jesus. They sing they laugh, and play. They sleep too, but the also discuss suicide and other serious topics.

I honestly didn't really like the book that much and I have only read Act I so far. The conversations that the men have seem weird and are not really funny. Vladimir seems to be the leader of the two and bosses Estragon around. I was annoyed at how many times they had to ask themselves what the other one wanted to do, and when they were discussing the idea of suicide, I did think it was kind of humorous that they decided against it because one of them might not die and would be left alone, and not for the sake of the ending their own life. The whole encounter with Pozzo was weird for me because even though Vladimir and Estragon are obviously beggars, they didn't ask for anything and had to much pride. Lucky was kind of a humorous character because he never really said anything but just stood their being a slave, and doing what Pozzo told him to do.

Basically the story being built about trying to keep yourself occupied so not to become completely bored is what bored me. I guess you could say that you don't need a great plot or story line to create a work of literary art, since this is said to be one of the greatest.