Brief Summary Of The Play Our Town
How Fast Can Life Really Be
LIFE, we may not know what it means but we may know how short and quick human life is. Our Town is about these characters that live in the same town and they all interact with each other and the stage manager is explaining the play in a very unique way. Every single time the stage manager explains the play he always makes a theme. In the play, Our Town, Wilder explores the brevity of human life.
Wilder explains the brevity of human life by giving multiple examples of how fast fifty years fly. The stage manager interrupts the play and tells the audience: “You know how it is: you’re twenty-two or twenty-two and you make some decisions. Then wisssh! You’re seventy: you’ve been a lawyer for fifty years, and that …show more content…
Wilder gives another example of how short life is to the audience by saying: “Mrs.Gibbs died first-long time ago in fact, she went to visit Rebecca, Who married an insurance man, and died there from pneumonia. But she now is up in the cemetery.” (Wilder 7). In other words its showing another example of being short when Mrs.Gibbs visited her daughter and died in a blink of an eye from pneumonia. It shows things can come out of nowhere and potentially kill you. This supports my claim because it says things can come out of nowhere and put an effect on you. Key words are died, long time ago, and cemetery. Another piece of evidence that this book shows the brevity of human life is in act one Dr.Gibbs delivered twins. Then in act two talks about George and Emily courtship and marriage. Act three features a funeral. This supports my claim because this carries the audience from the beginning of life to the end of life. The life of these people are only explained in such a short amount of time and shows how fast life can potentially be. Wilder mentions to the crowd plenty of times of the brevity of human life, in the play Our Town. He explains that by examples of characters lives in the
LIFE, we may not know what it means but we may know how short and quick human life is. Our Town is about these characters that live in the same town and they all interact with each other and the stage manager is explaining the play in a very unique way. Every single time the stage manager explains the play he always makes a theme. In the play, Our Town, Wilder explores the brevity of human life.
Wilder explains the brevity of human life by giving multiple examples of how fast fifty years fly. The stage manager interrupts the play and tells the audience: “You know how it is: you’re twenty-two or twenty-two and you make some decisions. Then wisssh! You’re seventy: you’ve been a lawyer for fifty years, and that …show more content…
Wilder gives another example of how short life is to the audience by saying: “Mrs.Gibbs died first-long time ago in fact, she went to visit Rebecca, Who married an insurance man, and died there from pneumonia. But she now is up in the cemetery.” (Wilder 7). In other words its showing another example of being short when Mrs.Gibbs visited her daughter and died in a blink of an eye from pneumonia. It shows things can come out of nowhere and potentially kill you. This supports my claim because it says things can come out of nowhere and put an effect on you. Key words are died, long time ago, and cemetery. Another piece of evidence that this book shows the brevity of human life is in act one Dr.Gibbs delivered twins. Then in act two talks about George and Emily courtship and marriage. Act three features a funeral. This supports my claim because this carries the audience from the beginning of life to the end of life. The life of these people are only explained in such a short amount of time and shows how fast life can potentially be. Wilder mentions to the crowd plenty of times of the brevity of human life, in the play Our Town. He explains that by examples of characters lives in the