Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Pozzo (Waiting for Godot) Pozzo is a character from Samuel Beckett's play "Waiting for Godot". His name is Italian for "well" (as in "oil well"). On the surface he is a pompous, sometimes foppish, aristocrat (he claims to live in a manor, own many slaves and a Steinway piano), cruelly using and exploiting those around him (specifically his slave, Lucky and, to a lesser extent, Estragon). He wears similar clothes to Vladimir and Estragon (i.e. a bowler and suit), but they are not in the dire condition theirs are. While by no means a villain in a conventional sense of
Rough for Theatre II in the ending, leaving it open to various interpretations such as Croker may be crying (justifying the handkerchief), smiling, was dead prior to A and B’s arrival or else died during the process. Despite working up the text for publication in the seventies, "Rough for Theatre II" clearly looks back to "Waiting for Godot" and "Endgame" rather than forward to the later plays. Had Beckett actually written the play later it would have borne a greater resemblance to "That Time", "Eh Joe" or "Ghost Trio", Morvan and Bertrand’s characters being reduced to disembodied voices. In these three plays, the central