Our Town
My Thoughts on Thorton Wilder's Our Town Our Town is a play about characters growing up and dying in a small town known as Grover's Corners, New Hampshire. The play has been stripped to the bare essentials as far as the visual part of it goes, but this just leaves the imagination and intellectual part of the play greater. There is hardly any scenery at all, but the narrator makes sure to describe everything exactly how it is supposed to look. There is so much detail used in description that it almost caused me to stop paying attention to what was said. I figured that it is impossible for all of it to be very important at all, but at the end of the play, I realized just why all of this detail was used. This is almost the exact same conclusion that Angelica Bautista Viloria came too. She found the beginning very slow paced, and she even admitted to falling in and out of consciousness. After the first part of the play where the background is set, Angelica thinks that they play picks up a little as it gets into the topics of love and marriage. I see how see found this more interesting as she is a married woman and can directly relate to what is going on in the play. I,
It really shows just how much detail people overlook. You can also not realize how lucky you are to be alive until you experience all of the great things in life. You had to create your own imagery based on the long list of details that were rattled off by the narrator. However, I do believe in the message that Angelica got out of this part. I have not really experienced love with another person except for my family. I am sure that there will be many more high and low points in my life, but I still have experienced enough to get something out of it. The play then goes into a part where one of the main characters, Emily, dies and goes to the other world where she sees people that she had known, and had died. This is when Emily realizes the true message of the play. The end of the play is where you realize the genius of the play. I also did not get as excited, because in the generation that I am growing up in there is much more emphasis on the visual aspects of life, which the play did not have much of. Nobody realizes how great life really is until they no longer have it. She finds herself realizing things more and pays far more attention to every detail than when she was alive. We think things are boring or slow or that life sucks when each day is just meant to be lived to the max. It seems as though the others know something that Emily does not, but Emily wants to figure it out for herself.
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