Wilder never lived in one place long enough but when he went to Berkeley High School was when he began writing his plays. Where he eventually wrote Our Town and won his second Pulitzer Pr

"Our Town by Thornton Wilder is such a play, and it is important not only for itself but because it is the progenitor of many other works." (Miller 3974)

Our Town is a play that represents typical American small town life in the 1900's. The play has little or no scenery on stage. There is a stage manager who stays on stage though out the whole play and helps explain much of the action. Our Town's type of plot is domestic romance and symbolism. The plot takes place between 1901 and 1913 in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire. Our Town is set in three acts, the first act is "Daily Life", the second is "Love and Marriage", and the third act is "Death."

ize. Originally Wilder wrote Our Village in 1937 then later he retitled it Our Town. It was met with much eagerness when it first opened in New York in 1938. Wilder's play ran for 336 performances and that is what

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