Personal Response on Our Town

Our town by Thorton Wilder was an interesting story. One of the things I liked about this story was how they were able to make a play out of very little props. I like this because it made me focus more on the play that what would have been going on around if there had been more prop. What I found interesting how the stage manager was multiple characters in the story. This was interesting in this story particularly because the stage manager was kind of like a character that could see the audience and interact with them. Another thing I like about this play is that even without all the action that we see in movies today they were still able to make it interesting by adding other small features like what is happening in the town and the jobs of other characters. One of the parts I found was interesting was how the stage manager tells us how some people die. At the start of the book he tells us that Mrs. Gibbs dies from pneumonia. I did not like this because whenever I saw Mrs. Gibbs I knew she was going to die later in the story. It also spoils the surprise of finding out she dies. I liked the play more then the book because it helped me get a picture of what the characters look like and a better sense of what is happening. But overall I like this story.

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