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It' why I tell my wife she should have been one herself.
“I’m going to be a lawyer like Daddy. I talk a lot so I’ll be great at it. All you have to do is keep talking until you win.”
Entry #7 - "Our Town" by Thorton Wilder
Question #1
Does Grover’s Corners have to be a New Hampshire or a New England town, or would any are do just as well?
Question #2
In what ways is the play still relevant to our urbanized, globalized, and multicultural society? Do its village pieties avoid the pressing problems of our era? Is its vision of people finding meaningful places in family and community too simplistic?
Question #3
What do you make of Wilder’s depictions of women’s and men’s emotional lives and values?
A. With the following answer, I intend to address all three questions above, and hope it does make sense to the reader.
In my opinion, Grover’s Corners would fit anywhere in the United States, be it the south, California where the author studied, or the Midwest where he was born, and at any given point in history. The social issues addressed in this play, war, death natural or otherwise, indifference to what really matters due to immaturity, the overprotective parents, as well as those who would give in a little more to their children’s decisions, and the escape young people find in what is prohibited (alcohol, cigarettes, etc…) and even in marriage, are all the effects of our values which have not changed much since this play was written in the 1930’s. Though our community is much larger now than in the late 30’s, and we as a country are more accepting of those who live far from us and their customs, our core values do remain the same… We highly respect our parents, and our parents continue to do their best at protecting us, in many cases to extreme levels. While this is not true for all parents and children today, it was not so back then either, when the rate of crime and pregnancies outside of marriage were as high as perhaps they are now.
Another point I find still relevant today, is Wilder’s depiction of women and men’s values. As mentioned above, I think this remains an unchanged matter, with women still with much power over the decisions made by every family, whether men choose to accept for this to be displayed in public or not. Meanwhile, men continue to fall head over heels for women, doing as they command until he is mature enough to think for himself, and at which point the only thing left to do on an attempt to claim his freedom, is to buy the convertible.
This is not to bash women for having the sort of power and control over men they do have, but in my eyes is an inevitable fact of life. We come out of a woman’s womb, and live at least half of our lives being fed, clothed, and following the ideas and rules of that woman. Again, while this might not be the law of the land, most of us cannot wait to run away from home and find another woman to continue guiding us through life. Simply put, I do not think our society will change much from what we see in this play until human beings, men particularly stops our dependency on women, which I find biologically impossible… Our Town will always be relevant in my opinion, hence its popularity, generation after generation, and after watching it again, in a bright room, I have to say I like it much more than the first time.
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