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An Analysis Of Our Town By Thornton Wilder
I pledge that this work is entirely my own and I have neither given nor received any unauthorized help in its completion.

Chintan Jani
Professor Amanda Meyer
English 102-05
6 October 2016
The Mundane Circle of Life
“People never get the flowers while they can still smell them” said Kanye West in his song ‘Big Brother’ noting that people take what they have for granted until they have lost it. Similarly, in Our Town by Thornton Wilder, Emily Webb Gibb’s portrayal, her approach to people around her and her perspective on life after death puts a spotlight on the mundanity of day-to-day life events and how neglectful people are of it until it’s too late. Our Town is set up as a perfect archetypal American countryside where days start early and

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