'Will you never have done … revolving it all?'
– V & Mrs W

With her every footfall, May reflects upon her existence and ‘tries to tell how it was’ but can find no coherent, meaningful grasp of ‘it all’. Her experience of living has been and remains as shadowy as the figure she presents upon the stage. There is even a hesitation about her ever having been born:

V:	Where is she, it may be asked. [Pause.] Why, in the old home, the same where she– [Pause.] The same where she began. [Pause.] Where it began. [Pause.] It all began. [Pause.]

Beckett was intrigued by the experience of psychologist C.G. Jung, who reported feeling unable to help one of his female patients because, Jung argued, although she existed physically she was not, in fact, ‘living’. Author, James Knowlson sees May as ‘Beckett’s own poignant recreation of a girl who had never really been born… a permanent sense of existence by proxy, of being absent from true being.’

May’s memories are only of the absence of having ever meaningfully existed in her life. Slowly ‘revolving it all’ in her ‘poor mind’, all slowly fades to impalpability and we are left with ‘no trace of May’… as though she had never been … as though never there.