sentences: "Proper names are less important in such works as "The End", "The Expelled", "The Calmative", "First Love" [and] "Texts for Nothing" ...Here Beckett's method is to introduce an unnamed first person narrator; to give most of the secondary characters names related to their roles ("my father", "a policeman", a "cabman"); and to reserve proper names for only a few peripheral characters" such as, in "From An Abandoned Work", Balfe.