In the world hell is interpreted in many different ways. No Exit gives us an interpretation in which hell are individuals in your contact. Each individual affects other individuals in a plethora of bad ways, and people are hell for each another.
In the story No Exit the two characters Estelle and Garcin cause hell for the third character, Inez. Estelle and Garcin do all they can to make Inez as miserable as possible. For example, Garcin and Estelle know Inez does not want them to be together, and this leads to Estelle and Garcin starting to become intimate with each other to bother Inez. When Estelle and Garcin begin to make physical contact with one another Inez exclaims, "Estelle! Garcin! You must be going crazy. You"re not alone. I"m here too"(pg.36) Inez does all she can in her physical and mental power to try preventing Estelle and Garcin from getting intimate because that causes her to get jealous and in a way torturing her because Inez wanted Estelle but Estelle did not care for Inez. Even though Estelle and Garcin torture Inez, Inez in turn tortures them.
Inez tortures Estelle. Inez knows that Estelle really cares about her appearance and Inez uses that to her advantage. When Inez is annoyed with Estelle she right away uses Estelle's appearance against her, Inez says, ".that nasty red spot at the bottom of your cheek? A pimple?" These few words from Inez's mouth make Estelle tear apart inside because she can not stand for her appearance to look bad and since she can not see herself in a mirror she has no other choice but to believe Inez and therefore is tortured and fell horrible inside. Inez does this in part because she sense Estelle does not want her and because she senses that Estelle might want Garcin instead. But just because Estelle is being tortured does not mean that she does not take a turn in being the torturer. .
There is more than one instance in which Estelle made Garcin fell utterly uncomfortable.