Appreciating the Little Things in Thorton Wilder´s Our Town

In the play “Our Town” author Thornton Wilder uses his characters and the setting to display one of the themes “Appreciate the present and live to the fullest.” In many ways people like the characters in the story don’t take the time to notice what they have around them because they live in such a routine life that they don’t notice big events. This happened in both acts one and two in the play.

Knowing Our Place is and excerpt from Barbara Kingsolver’s SMALL WONDER. The excerpt is basically all about the places where her life stories and where important times in her life take place. They all end up having to take place in the wilderness in a small town, in a small house in the middle of nowhere; where she had actually grown up. She talks about how her log cabin at the end of Walker Mountain is near tobacco plants and also how it has old historic nature to it. She talks about how she loves the rain and how it sounds in her little log cabin house that was built in the early 1900’s. She grew up and spent most her childhood in these woods filled with neighbor’s miles away and

Our Town is a story on how humans does not fully appreciate life until they die and realize what they did and want to go back and change it. Thornton Wilder’s play Our Town is about a town life in three acts. The three acts are as followed. Daily Life, Companionship, and Death.It shows how people live and die and how they regret things they did on earth and come to see the big picture of life. Wilder argues, because life is short we must appreciate the joys of living until we die.

Our Town is a play written by Thornton Wilder set in a small town known as Grover’s Corners. Wilder conjured the Stage Manager to be a representation to the theme of the play. The theme of universality placing Grover’s Corners in view with the rest of the world. Wilder makes a point to the audience that people have a big impact and influence over the next person, whether they were important or insignificant to that individual’s life. Therefore, the Stage Manager emphasizes on this very viewpoint that the lives of certain people are overlooked so are their influences. The Stage Manager himself is a physical embodiment of Wilders own views and opinions of humans and life itself. Throughout the play, the Stage Manager plays various of roles in order to force the realization to the audience into understanding the importance human life and the influence of others.

The movie Our Town was a 1938 American three-act play directed by Thornton Wilder. The movie tells the story about a fictional American town known as Grover’s Corners between 1901 and 1913. Throughout the mover, the director uses meta-theatrical tools to set the play in the theatres where such play was being conducted. The main character in this film is the stage manager who addresses the audience directly. The stage manager also brings in guest lecturers into the play by fielding questions from the viewers as well as filling some of the roles (TheConnection np). The major differences between this play and others are that the actors perform without a proper set and the acting is done without props.

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Our Town is a play that takes place near the turn of the century in the small rural town of Grover’s Corners, New Hampshire. The playwright, Thornton Wilder is trying to convey the importance of the little, often unnoticed things in life. Throughout the first two acts he builds a scenario, which allows the third act to show that we as humans often run through life oblivious to what is actually happening. Wilder attempts to show life as something that we take for granted. We do not realize the true value of living until we are dead and gone. The through-line of the action seems to be attention to the details of life. Wilder builds up a plot that pays attention to great details of living.

Our Town is play written a while ago, but it relates to any time. Showing that routine is a part of everybody’s life. No matter what day and age you live in your going to have a routine. This play shows an example of two families and their daily routines. The whole play relates to routine even the different acts.

Our Town is a novel that ideally expounds upon how important each and everyday day of our life is. However, we find ourselves stuck in an accustomed routine where as time passes without us even noticing how fast it is going by. The Stage Manager expresses this by saying, “suddenly, you are young and you make a decision to get married, and the next thing you know, you are seventy and that white haired lady at your side has eaten over fifty-thousand meals with you.” (Wilder 49). Falling into this routine could be detrimental to people’s attitude, dreams, and goals.

After reading Our Town often readers will conclude that Wilder criticizes our lack of appreciation for life. On the contrary, Wilder completely obliterates the idea that such admiration is remotely possible, and presents the reader with an ultimatum surrounding life’s appreciation in which neither option is ideal.

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town usually shows moments where the audience is connected to the cosmos and then back to earth. Due to Wilder’s history it is not surprising that he wants to connect to the cosmos. Throughout Wilder’s play time becomes something people lose track of, including the Stage Manager. Wilder goes into detail about how easy it is to take the time someone has on the planet for granted. The characters who are deceased talk about how the living don’t pay attention to their lives during their time on earth. Time is a theme throughout especially in the end when Emily herself realizes that she hasn’t had enough time.

Thorton Wilder’s Our Town is a play set in the early 1900’s and was first performed without scenery. The opening of the play consist of the stage manager telling all about Grover’s Corner, which is the small town where the play takes place. Wilder’s intention was to make it sound like any small town in the United States.

In Our Town, there are many themes that are present in the play. There are many instances where the reader or audience can say that while writing the play that Thornton Wilder had in mind that the play was going to support the feminist movement, or the how the play can be used to show how ridiculous the marxist theory is, or it can also say that Wilder intended Our Town to be used to support the mythological theory, both the archetypal characters, in the town drunk, Simon Stimson, and George and Emily, and archetypal images, such as his references Mrs. Webb’s and Mrs. Gibbs’ gardens, and how he continued to reference how the moon looks and its position throughout the play. Thornton Wilder can be said to support the feminist movement because

“The more often we see the things around us even the beautiful and wonderful things the more they become invisible to us. That is why we often take for granted the beauty of this world” -Joseph B. Wirthlin. Humans live life day to day without noticing the little things and are too absorbed by themselves to appreciate everyone and everything around them. Thornton Wilder, the author of Our Town addresses key life lessons in act three of the play.

The play Our Town is a great American play that successfully portrays daily life, love and marriage, and death and eternity in a small town named Grover’s Corners. The play contains three acts, each with their own defining theme. Wilder incorporates all the minor themes into one grand and wholesome moral of the story. Although Our Town is composed of multiple themes, there is only one theme that completely defines the entirety of the play. The primary theme of Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, is that humans should appreciate life because it is precious and fleeting.