The play No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre depicts a caricature of hell. It is an old French drawing room from the Second Empire. Residents are not able to brush their teeth, see themselves in a mirror, close their eyes, sleep, change anything in the room, summon the valet, or go outside. The characters are Joseph Garcin, a journalist killed by gunshot wounds while fleeting as a deserter, who now has a disconcerting twitch of his mouth; Inez Serrano, a single woman, previously a postal clerk, extremely critical of other people, who was killed with gas from a turned-