Abstract

Happy Days was written in English in 1960 and translated into French by Beckett as Oh les beaux. This play has been regarded as being savagely ironic and the irony which was classified as metaphysical or cosmic in its presentation of the loneliness of Man in the face of indifferent universe. Happy Days is considered a milestone in Beckett’s writings because it is for the first time a well preserved blonde woman in her fifties is the main character of the play. Winnie is unlike Hamm, the main character in Endgame, she blinks at suffering with rare mixture of cheer and indifference. This paper is an attempt to investigate Winnie’s reaction against The Absurd as an optimistic heroine in the Beckettian Drama. 

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