A. Garcin:
Garcin was unfaithful to his wife, Estelle. Garcin lacked respect for Estelle, not only he cheated on her frequently, but bullied her in a brutal way. In the play, Garcin recalls, without any sympathy, bringing home another woman one night, and Estelle bringing them their morning coffee after hearing their engagement all night. According to Garcin:
GARCIN: I’m here because I treated my wife abominable…For five years…she’s sitting by the window, with my coat on her knees. The coat with the twelve bullet-hole. The blood’s like rust; a brown ring round each hole. It’s quite a museum-piece, that coat; scarred with history... I don’t regret anything…. I brought a half-caste girl to stay in our house. My wife slept upstairs; she must have heard – everything. She was an early riser and, as I and the girl stayed in bed late, she served us our morning coffee. (24-25)
Just by reading this we, the audience, can see how cruel Garcin was toward his wife.
B. Inez: …show more content…
Inez twisted the Florence’s perception of her own husband. Inez also had an affair with Florence. Throughout the play Inez frankly acknowledges the fact that she is very cruel. According to Inez, “When I say I’m cruel, I mean I can’t get on without making people suffer. Like a coal. Alive coal in others’ hearts.” (27). On page thirty, she adds on that human feeling are beyond her range and that she is rotten to her core. As an audience, we can easily see how effortless it was for her to ruin the lives of Florence and her