ABSTRACT
The trouble with playing games in Pinter's works is that the players tend to get hurt. They also tend to get confused, like the audience, for it is not always clear which particular game is being played at any given moment. Pinter integrates several different battle games into his plays, so as to disorientate his characters - and his audience. In an effort to counter the reigning scene of confusion, there are characters in Pinter who try to be quite adamant about what they mean. In The Caretaker, one of Pinter's most obscure plays and also one of his best, people are left in the dark from the outset. The room is apparently owned by Mick, the breadwinner of the family, but it is currently lived in by his elder brother Aston who has been left mentally retarded, supposedly as a result of his experience in a psychiatric hospital.
