In Endgame, the author paints a picture of emptiness, loneliness, and sorrow as everyone outside the play, and in the play is dying. The play goes to show that with all what not, life is just a repetition of every other day and death being an inevitable end will come when it will come and that will be the end of life. In lines 210 till 215, when Hamm asks Clov if he seeds came up, and Clov said it didn't, he(Hamm) felt like same thing had happened everyday and he used that to make a generalization that every other day is the same.
HAMM: This is not much fun
But that's always the way at the end of the day, isn't it, Clov?
Clov: Always
Hamm: It's the end of the day like any other day, isn't it, Clov?
Clov: Looks like it.
Also, at the beginning of the play Clov says:
Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished.
Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little heap, the impossible heap.
I can't be punished any more'
I think that passage summarizes the whole play because Clov, proclaims that life, was going to come to an end and that could mean the end of suffering for him. In his view, the heap is impossible, and it is just an accumulation of single grains added to each other. This connotes that repetitions takes away meaning from life . Therefore, one despises living a life that has no meaning, and yet fears death which is an inevitable end that will surely and eventually come.Finally, at the end of the play, Hamm uses the image of the grains and a heap in comparison to that of individual moments and a single life. He referred to existence as "life," then, is also "impossible," as it is merely a series of repeating moments. The author's view of existence as circular, with beginnings and endings joined together, supports Clov's passage above. Only death can bring life to an end, and this seems to be what all the characters have in common.
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