Our Town by Thornton Wilder, is filled with characters with the exact purpose of showing us as an audience how much people in their day-to-day lives change and evolve. As this is a play, it is divided into three acts with them all mainly focusing on Emily. The first covers her childhood, the second her marriage to George, and the third her final resting place in the town’s graveyard. Emily little by little with each act, undergoes physical changes more present than any other character. This shows us how we are also changing as the story goes on without knowing.
The second most significant transformation in this story is Emily’s husband George Gibbs. After becoming the town’s high school baseball star, he starts to change for the worse in Emily’s eyes. Conceited, annoying, stuck up all words she would have used to describe her unknown future husband-to-be. Nonetheless, George, once more changes again after finding out how Emily is feeling, going as far as to change his mind around Agriculture School because he wants to keep Emily happy as before. This in and of itself shows us It’s always possible for a person to change multiple times, and a person’s character is never final.
Overall I didn’t mind this book, it was well-patience, fit with this unit, and generally was great as a play. However, unlike some people in the class, I found myself falling asleep at some points without trying because of how boring it was. I do not care for any of the characters so all the secret plot twists and turns for example Emily’s death did not do anything to me. As a person who lives in Sooke (right outside of Langford if you don’t know) because this is based on a ”normal rural life” this could have contributed to the fact of why I was so bored so take whatever I write with a grain of salt.