The Caretaker symbolises modern day hopelessness in life and illustrates perfectly the class divide that is so evident in our society. Very little is achieved throughout the play, and the story comes full circle as Davies is accepted into the room at the beginning and is made to leave by the end of the play.

Pinter fills the audience with frustration as this tragic tale leaves the audience wanting more, a twist, an explosion of action, anything. However painting the perfect picture of the lives these 3 characters have, he does not give in to the audience's plea.

There's virtually no plot whatsoever, if you like plays that are full of intriguing, interesting, and vibrant characters then turn away now! There are no great scenes of any real intensity or rapture, Harold Pinter keeps the reader in a torturous state of frustration and expectancy, throughout the play you are waiting for the explosion, the big event! Fireworks to fly! - Stop hoping or expecting before you've even picked the play up, I assure you it's not going to happen.

Harold Pinters' The Caretaker is entirely based on three mundane characters, of which it is very difficult to build any emotional attachment to, other than intense in particularly Davis'case, revulsion.
It relies heavily on 'significant' inanimate objects to express the plays themes, and the supposed 'brutally funny' (Sunday times) humour - don't get me started, one suggests they mistook exasperation for humour, suggest urgent correction
'Spiritual shocker' - (Sunday Times) I couldn't have been more shocked if all the characters had suddenly burst into song - it truly is the most tiresome, mundane, tedious, infuriating and irksome play I have ever had the misfortune to read, it is the worst play I have had to read, I'm currently studying it for A-level, and have come convinced there is only one place for it - the bonfire!

The caretaker by Harold Pinter is the story of three men. Mick is the proprietor of a shabby house in the countryside. Aston, his brother, is always busy with something but never accomplishes anything. Finally there is Davies, some kind of a hobo adopted by Aston who gives him a place to sleep and - after a while - asks him if he wants a job as the caretaker. Davies is very reluctant and find petty excuses to postpone the decision of becoming the caretaker.
What is the plot of this play? Everything stays the same, nothing will ever change. It becomes clear that the three characters are stuck with each other.
The most impressive part of the play is the monologue by Aston in which he tells how he was treated with electro-shocks when he was a kid. This is one of the most gruesome parts I know in modern theatre.