Our Town is a play about ordinary people doing ordinary things in an ordinary town. All of these ordinaries make the play quite extraordinary. No other play is as universal as it is; everyone from all walks of life can connect with the play. Everyone lives in their own little town, or if not a town, their own little section of a much bigger city. Every young man experiences what George Gibbs went through with Emily and vice versa. Instead of watching the play like you would any other you become a part of Our Town.
             The theme of Our Town is universal; it is the tragic truth that human feeling and understanding are incomplete. People never truly understand and live their lives to their potential. They can only see from one point of view their whole lives. They can never see the complete picture and all that they are missing. They are blocked by their own ambition and limited to their own knowledge or lack there of. This blindness is an ordinary thing that all people, except maybe a few saints and poets, are imprisoned by.
             Our Town is so universal and routine it is unpleasant at times. It has drunkenness, war and the worst of all, death. Some viewers don't like these breaks from the seemingly perfect life at Grover's Corners. This was, however, the writer's purpose. None's life or town is that perfect. There is always a bad and depressing side to things. These unfortunate events greatly add to the play.
             These unfortunate events reinforce the idea that people don't live life, by presenting death. We later learn that only in death do these people understand how great life was. The Stage Manager said "you've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life." This is obviously a vicious circle; you can't have one with out getting the other first. It is suggested in the play that Simon Stimson might have understood that while he was still li
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