Where is inez from in no exit

You here, you here, and I there. Like soldiers at our posts. Not one word. I think I could stay ten thousand years with only my thoughts for company.

Painfully conscious. It makes one want to sleep. There they are. I can see them. When I talked to people I always made sure there was one near by in which I could see myself. I watched myself talking. And somehow it kept me alert, seeing myself as the others saw me. To forget about the others? How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears.

Can you stop your thoughts? Like a live coal. For six months I flamed away in her heart, till there was nothing but a cinder. One night she got up and turned on the gas while I was asleep. Then she crept back into bed. So now you know. Garcin, now you have us in the nude all right. Do you understand things any better for that? Yes, perhaps a trifle better. If you make any movement, if you raise your hand to fan yourself, Estelle and I feel a little tug.

So you can take your choice. I want you to do me a service. Look at it this way. Will you have that faith in me? Then I shall love you and cherish you forever. Estelle—will you? Open the door! Open, blast you! Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.

You , anyhow, know what it means to be a coward. There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. Yes, you know what evil costs. Is that so? She would rather choose her hell and fight it, face to face, than ignore it. Inez confesses her own story.

The cousin killed himself, and shortly after Florence killed Inez and herself by turning on the gas stove while they slept. Inez and Garcin press Estelle for her confession. She looks back to earth, where her apartment is being rented out to someone new. As the scene dies out, Inez realizes she no longer has any connection to earth, and all of her is now in hell.

Garcin implores Inez to help him emotionally, but she claims she is "rotten to the core. Inez asks for Garcin to leave her and Estelle alone, and he agrees. Inez stands behind Estelle and talks to her, while Estelle faces Garcin and pretends she is conversing with him.

Garcin tries to leave but remains behind even after the door opens on account of Inez. Inez tries to seduce her, but she says that she needs to be with a man. She eventually confesses to not only having an affair, but also drowning the baby of her lover. Garcin is momentarily drawn to her but chooses instead to focus all his energy on Inez. She tries to kill Inez, forgetting that they are all already dead. A taciturn representative of the devil. He shows each prisoner to their room, answers their questions, and promptly leaves.

There is a call bell in the room but he doesn't always answer it. Bad faith. There are other ways in which Inez deviates from sound existentialist practice; her concern over her apartment back on earth, for example, is the same sort of petty "human dignity" that plagues Garcin.

You know the way the catch larks — with a mirror? I'm your lark-mirror, my dear, and you can't escape me There isn't any pimple, not a trace of one. So what about it? Suppose the mirror started telling lies? Or suppose I covered my eyes — as he is doing — and refused to look at you, all that loveliness of yours would be wasted on the desert air. Or, Inez is trying to illustrate to Estelle the problem with relying on others to define the self.

How utterly absurd! I feel you there, in every pore. Your silence clamors in my ears. You can nail up your mouth, cut your tongue out — but you can't prevent your being there. Can you stop your thoughts? I hear them ticking away like a clock, tick-tock, tick-tock, and I'm certain you hear mine.

It's all very well skulking on your sofa, but you're everywhere, and every sound comes to me soiled because you've intercepted it on its way. For another example, check out the scene towards the end of the play, when Garcin and Estelle have decided through mutual deception that they can love each other after all.

He breaks off and stares at her. INEZ: [Still laughing. How can you be such a simpleton? And that's all she wants. She'd assure you you were God Almighty if she thought it would give you pleasure. But to make this decision even tougher for you, take a look at what is arguably the most important debate in No Exit — the discussion between Inez and Garcin about his courage or cowardice: GARCIN: Listen!

Each man has an aim in life, a leading motive; that's so, isn't it?