Comparing the People of Thornton Wilder's Our Town and the People of The Grapes of Wrath

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The play “Our Town” is a 1938 three-act play by American playwright Thornton Wilder that is set in a small town called Grover’s Corners. It tells the story of a couple citizens in their everyday lives in the early nineteenth century. Grover’s Corners is a small town, no famous people really come out of it, and everybody knows everybody for the most part. These families that live in Grover’s Corners do not leave the town for the entire book, the people are even buried there. This is the exact opposite of what happens in the novel “The Grapes of Wrath”. The Grapes of Wrath is an American realist novel written by John Steinbeck that sets the stage of one “Tom Joads” and also the life of a farmer in the Midwest during the Great Depression. Unlike the people in Grover’s Corners, these people leave their hometown not because they want to, but because they have to. The people of Grover’s Corners are ignorant about the gift of life while the people in “The Grapes of Wrath” suffer through a catastrophe that makes them realize how important life really is. The people of Grover’s...

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