Our Town Character Analysis

“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?” People everyday take advantage of an average day and the cycle of life that every human being goes through, fictional and real. Being born, living life, and finally dying. It happens to real people and fiction characters alike, including characters from Our Town by Thornton Wilder and Sounder by William H. Armstrong. George Gibbs, a character from Our Town, has lived and suffered just like any other person due to the death of his young wife, Emily. Emily’s father, Editor Webb, has suffered the same loss as George, also including his son who passed at a young age. The mother of the boy from Sounder has most likely suffered the most out of all the characters, just because of the color of her skin in a certain period of time, dooming her to a life of suffering and hardship. Human beings create what they experience, either beauty or sorrow, charging fiction characters to their destiny. “People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.” This is how Mrs. Webb defended George and Emily 's decision to marry young, knowing …show more content…
After father died and her son traveled to town for his studies, she continued to raise the rest of her children and shuck walnuts. She knew that if her eldest son could gain an education, there was hope for her younger kids, praying that her son could teach them the subjects learned at school and even show them how to hunt. Keeping up with the same monotonous routine, the only break in it would be when her son came back from town to spend a few days with the family sitting on the porch and listening to mama’s stories. Even though the time and world was changing around them, mother still believed her myths and fables about the dog days and the sun and