Before the third act starts, Emily dies from childbirth. The main setting in the third and final act is Wilder’s interpretation of a life after death. In his opinion, before you can go to afterlife, you have to wait for your problems and worries from earth disappear and stop bothering you. Once this happens, you are able to go to an afterlife. In the third act, Emily had died, so she spends time waiting with Mrs. Gibbs, Mrs. Soames and Simon Stimson. Before this quote, Emily had gone back to earth, back in time, to relive her twelfth birthday. Sooner than her birthday scene ended, she starts crying to the Stage Manager that she wanted to go back to her grave. Her realization of how she wasted her life made her break down and she had to run
