OUR TOWN ESSAY In Act One, titled “ Birth and Daily Life,” the author of Our Town, Thorton Wilder, demonstrates how people in Grover’s Corner, Massachusetts go through a daily routine of chores. Dr. Gibbs is coming home from delivering twins, Joe Crowell Jr. is delivering the morning paper, Ms. Gibbs and Ms. Webb are preparing breakfast, and the children are getting ready for school. Act One also prepares us for the marriage of George …showed first 75 words of 409 total…

…showed last 75 words of 409 total…rheumatism, the grandchildren, the second rheumatism, the death-bed, and the reading of the will.” Act Three relates to our daily stages of life because we will all die someday and we will experience childhood, matrimony, and death. As we the readers can see, Thorton Wilder shows the natural progressions of life and how people are effected by it. The play Our Town expresses feelings that can be felt and understood by the readers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**