Answer the following questions about Our Town in several sentences:
- Explain WHY the spirits in the cemetery urge Emily not to return to the past.
- Explain WHY the Stage Manager assumes the roles of several characters in the play.
- What does Wilder suggest about the fairness of life? Examine the question from the perspective of
- Simon
- Emily
- Mrs. Gibbs
- What similarities or differences are there between Wilder's attitude toward human life to that of Edgar Lee Masters in either poem: "Lucinda Matlock" or "Fiddler Jones"