Our Town

Thorton Wilder’s play Our Town is about a typical lifestyle of a small town life. In the story he links the similarities of two families, the Webb and Gibbs family. Wilder wrote the play in way to show people that even the smallest events in our daily life has great values. This paper will gives examples of how Wilder showed values in regular events but first we must justified what small events are. The smallest events in daily life is really in the eye of the person examining the event, for example a promotion to one person can be a milestone that persons life while to somebody else it is just everyday events that takes place over time. So small events are actually equivalent to a milestone depending on a persons opinion.
The first example to be brought up is when Dr. Gibbs talk with Joe Crowell Jr. “fine doc I never think about it at all. Only like you said, it always tells me when it’s going to rain. said Joe “Wh...