Historia de una escalera is a play written by Antonio Buero Vallejo in the 18th century. This play is about various characters whom are neighbors living under one apartment building. These neighbors have raised their children in the apartment over generations. The audience sees that a similar conflict arises throughout each generation. Each generation searches for happiness and are not able to achieve it because they make the same mistakes as the generation before them have. In the end we learn that the characters living in the apartment will never learn to be happy. These characters are filled with unfulfilled promises and in the end choose to stay where they are instead of moving forward. Time over time each character has promised to do
