Themes In The Play Our Town By Thornton Wilder

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The play, “Our Town” by Thornton Wilder takes place in a fictional town called Grover’s Corners in New Hampshire during the early 1900s and is about the people who live there. The town is very simple, as well as the as the people living there. A very important place in Grover’s Corner is the Gibbs’ and Webb 's’ houses. Both houses are next to each other and a large amount of time is spent on the actions of the Webb and Gibbs children in their homes. The main character throughout the acts is Emily Webb. She starts out as a teenager in high school, then gets married to George Gibbs and eventually dies. Many of the themes that are portrayed by Wilder are shown through what Emily does and the major events in her life. Each of the three acts shows