our town

Thornton Wilder was one of the America’s greatest writers of all time. Thought of as “a star of the first magnitude…unusually versatile, original, and clever.” (Phelps 2881). He brought small town life in America to theatres with his play Our Town. Wilder expressed many values in his work such as Christian morality, community, the family, and appreciation of everyday pleasures. They are all traditional but his methods in theatre were highly unorthodox. He linked …showed first 75 words of 571 total…

…showed last 75 words of 571 total…take advantage of the little things. “Our Town is not offered as a picture of life in a New Hampshire village…It is an attempt to find a value above all price for the smallest events in our daily life. I have made the claim as preposterous as possible, for I have set the village against the largest dimensions of time and place. The recurrent words in this play…are ‘hundreds,’ thousands,’ and ‘millions.’”(Wilder 368)