Most key to the overall functioning of the play seems to be core aesthetic ideas, new explorations of form that were at work throughout Beckett’s oeuvre and very central to the foregoing "Godot" - a play in which almost nothing happens, plot-wise, and furthermore, as many elements or levels of narrative craft seem to take a null value - there is seemingly no character development, and the location is vague and very poorly defined. Although Beckett had a reputation for keeping mum about the ideas behind his work, he specifically had published a conversation he had with a painter detailing precisely this aspect of his aesthetic vision which he wanted people to know - that his work was a realization of there being “nothing to express, no way to express it”.