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, however, was still a little bored with it. I have not really experienced love with another person except for my family. I have still seen it in other people such as my parents, but there is still not a direct connection with me. 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. 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. You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life. I am sure that everybody can relate to this, because no matter whom you are ...