In Waiting for Godot, the two main characters, Vladimir and Estragon, are waiting for someone they call Godot. While they wait, their audience, including myself, waits with them on, “A country road. A tree. Evening” (Act 1, p.1). We wait on a country road not trimmed with grass and wild flowers but with dry dusty dirt and gray rocks. We wait by a tree not heavy with green leaves but one that is stark naked. We wait in an evening signaled by a bloated moon with a sky not filled with stars but one that is dark and questionable. This landscape weighed heavy in my mind while I watched and read the play. Having to wait for Godot, on this sparse and dismal road with Vladimir and Estragon frustrated me while I tried to comprehend the starkness of the set with the profoundness of the play. What was Samuel Beckett thinking regarding his creation of this minimalistic setting? A country road. The starkness of the environment enhances the impact to the fact that we have absolutely no idea where Vladimir and Estragon are-either in time or in place. Not only don’t we know where they are but we don’t know if it is truly a tangible place, or place that is merely a figment of their imaginations, or even of our own imaginations. This effect of not being able to place our finger on time and place, toys with the audience’s psyche, while adding to the weightiness of the consequences that waiting has on us all. Like the connection shared between Vladimir and Estragon the road is connected to waiting and, waiting connected to the road. Both seem to be connected to the human condition and how time disturbs the mind while we wait for it to slowly expire. Another significant ingredient of these two men waiting on this dismal questionable road together is where does this road actually go to? Yet again ambiguity seems to be the place where this road leads to. The only clue that is given to the audience is that the road leads to a place where Pozzo can sell Lucky. However, for Vladimir and Estragon it might as well be a road to nowhere because it is apparent that they are unsure of its destination, and have not advanced in the time allotted them in their progression along it. This ingredient adds to the irony of Vladimir and Estragon’s