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No Exit Summary & Study Guide Description
No Exit Summary & Study Guide includes comprehensive information and analysis to help you understand the book. This study guide contains the following sections:
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No Exit Plot Summary
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No Exit opens with a valet leading Joseph Garcin into a drawing room. The small room has three couches and a mantelpiece with a bronze statue on it. Garcin is surprised by the room and its contents. He expected instruments of torture, not a window-less room. The room upsets him and he asks why they did not leave him at least a toothbrush. The valet finds his concerns silly, like the concerns of all the other guests, because they have no need for such human concerns. Garcin guesses that they will never sleep in this room, and notices that the valet never blinks. Garcin becomes further upset when he finds out that the lights are always on. Before the valet goes, Garcin asks if the bell works. The valet tells him it works only intermittently, then exits.
Garcin is left alone for a few minutes, then the valet returns...
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