Most people try to forget the past especially the bad things. When you look back you think of all the good that there was, but with the play "Our Town" it makes you think back to that one time when you ask your mother how pretty you are and the reasons you ask it. In Thornton Wilders play "Our Town", Thornton shows how girls have no self-confidence when they our growing up. The one character, Emily, asks her mother if she was pretty and for most young girls they ask the same thing. It seems like every mother will say the same thing, yes. After asking you not sure why you ask to you mother because she is you mother and in her eye you are the most beautiful person on the face of this earth. Thornton Wilder writes it like this with
             Mrs. Webb: Yes, of course you are. All of my children have good features; I'd be ashamed if they hadn't.
             Emily: Oh, Mama, that's not what I mean. What I mean is: am I pretty?
             Mrs. Webb: I've already told you, yes. Now that's enough of that you have a nice young pretty face. I never heard of such foolishness.
             Emily: Oh, Mama, you never tell us the truth about anything.
             Mrs. Webb: I am telling you the truth.
             Mrs. Webb: Yes, I was, if I do say it. I was the prettiest girl in town next to Mamie Cartwright.
             Emily: But, Mama, you've got to say something about me. Am I pretty enough... to get anybody ...to get people interested in me?
             Mrs. Webb: Emily, you make me tried. Now stop it. You're pretty enough for all normal purposes. –Come along now and bring that bowl with you.
             Emily: Oh, Mama, your no help. (Pg. 30-31.)
             Emily doesn't think her mother help her with what see said, which most children don't. Emily thought her mother would give her more then just a motherly put of view and that was all she gave her. Many children go to there parents to help them to tell them what they want to hear and most of the times they ge...