Our Town Act III

What is Wilder's message to his reader?

• Life is short and valuable; appreciate it.

• Everyday living

• We live and we die

• Lif goes by quickly

How does the action of the stage manager in his final appearance of the play reiterate the theme of the play?

• He tells the audience that each person lives and then dies.

• He tells the audience to live life to its fullest. Make it as good as you can..

• He checks his watch to check the time to show that each moment of life of important. Live!.

• He does not reiterate the theme of the play during his final appearance.

As ACT III opens, what is significant about the chairs.

• Each chair represents the life of someone in Grover's Corner.

• Each chair is for people in the audience.

• Each chair represents death.

• Each chair represents a person's grave who has already passed from the living.

Why is there an empty chair besides Mrs. Gibbs' chair as the Act opens?

• It is Mr. Gibbs chair. He left to get refreshments during intermission.

• It is no ones chair.

• This chair represents the grave of Emily and awaits her burial.

• The chair belongs to George.

Why is the setting of the beginning of Act III so important according to the stage manager?

• The opening represents the writer's true message of life, love and death to his reader.

• Death is inevitable no matter what the age.

• Take advantage of all you have and can do because you will leave this earth soon.

• The dead are not concerned with what the living do.

According to the text, how do the dead differ from the living?

• The dead cannot feel.

• They have no capacity to have concerns.

• The dead is no longer concerned with the concerns of the living and the troubles of the world.

• They have no empathy

How does Wilder connect Act II and III?

• George is sad in both Acts.

• Emily reflects on her parents' life as they did in Act II.

• Emily is dressed in white as if she was when she was getting married; she was as pretty as she was on her wedding day, in her white dress. Emily and George were concerned about the responsibilities of adulthood-George is faced with this this in Act III.

• Some of the same characters are in both Acts.

What does Emily realize when she sees George in the graveyard?

• She has no empathy for him.

• She is sadden.

• She wants to be with him.

• She realizes nothing.

According to the text, what do the dead await?

• Others to join them in the graveyard

• The coming of the Lord

• Eternal peace and rest

• To rise one day

Where does Emily's reflection take her?

• Her wedding day...

• She reflects on when her parents met and got married..

• Her child...

• When she was in school...