The room, designed in Second Empire style, contains nothing more than a chair, a sofa, a bronze statue and a letter opener.
When one character arrives, the porter is not at all surprised that he first asks where the spikes and leather are, and then asks why he was not allowed to bring a toothbrush. The room, designed in Second Empire style, contains nothing more than a chair, a sofa, a bronze statue and a letter opener. The characters then go on to confess various things to one another, such as how one banged a mulatto while his wife listened, another killed the husband of her lover by pushing him in front of a streetcar, and the third drowned an illegitimate child in Switzerland. For ten points, "hell is other people," at least for the characters Garcin, Inès and Estelle in this play by Jean-Paul Sartre.
When one character arrives, the porter is not at all surprised that he first asks where the spikes and leather are, and then asks why he was not allowed to bring a toothbrush.
{No Exit} ({Huis Clos})