Samuel Beckett's Happy Days is to be read anyway but literal. Beckett uses his brilliance to create an allegory for human condition. Winnie babbling away pretends that she has created an order out of her odd predicament. The play abandons realism and takes on the role of an optimistic idealism.
             Winnie: ... no no... can't complain ... no no ... musn't complain ... so much to be thankful for ... no pain ... hardly any ... wonderful thing that ... slight headache sometimes ... occasional mild migraine ... it comes ... then goes ... ah yes ... many mercies ... great mercies ...(pg.12)
             Winnie is embedded into the earth with no choices but to babble to herself and Willie throughout the remainder of life. Yet Winnie's strangest characteristic is her happiness, her existence does not seem to be torture for her. Winnie behaves and feels as though it was all very natural and understandable. This optimistic outlook is what drives her onward and defends her against her endless despair.
             A great moral, always look at the bright side, can been seen when analyzing the play, but is the moral realistic? If this reader were to be stuck in Winnie's situation he would not be remaining calm and not complaining. Perhaps the idea of overcoming the obstacles of life is relevant within Happy Days.
             Winnie: ...I speak of when I was not yet caught – in this way- and had my legs and had use of my legs, and could seek out a shady place, like you, when I was tired of the sun, or a sunny place, when I was tired of the shade, like you, and they are all empty words...(pg. 38)
             This is the first time Winnie speaks of her predicament and the audience realizes her suffering. One may look at this passage as a symbolism for the disabilities within life. Just as Winnie recalls before she was "caught in this way" a person handicapped would recall before they were handicapped. Winnie's recollection of the "old...