Loss Of Identity In Thornton Wilder's Our Town

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, reflects on the idea of, everyone is in control of what they decide to do with situations that occur in their lives. Sometimes we lose sight of the idea of people we surround ourselves with can influence our choices. I can relate to this inference, I believe in the saying of people can impact their own outcomes. My mom helped influence the turn out of my problem with my fear of heights, and Emily’s parents and George helped Emily get through her struggle of identity. I look at what I had to get through my situation, and I see Emily’s situation and I look back at what she had to go through as well, and I realize there is a connection between Emily and I.

For instance, Emily Webb throughout Our Town struggles with

This leads to Emily becoming inspired to make speeches as a living when she is older. “George: You made a fine speech in class’ “Emily: Well.. I was really ready to make a speech about the Monroe Doctrine, but at the last minute Miss Corcoran made me talk about the Louisiana Purchase instead. I worked an awful long time on both of them.’ ... “George: Emily, you’re just naturally bright, I guess.’ .... “George: Yeah. But, you see, I want to be a farmer, and my Uncle Luke says whenever I’m ready I can come over and work on his farm and if I’m any good I can just gradually have it.’ ..... “Emily: The Louisiana Purchase. It was like silk off a spool. I’m going to make speeches all my life.--- Mama, are these big enough?” When looking at this passage, it brings up the idea of sometimes words can lead to actions. Looking back on the day I had to face my fear of heights, I remember I was very young at the time and I remember convincing myself that I had to go on the log chute eventually. I kept psyching myself out, because I kept watching other people go down the big drop that the ride takes at the end. Just like Emily I was not confident in myself about taking the initiative to go on this ride. Alongside the people in our lives having affect on us, ourselves are another factor. I look between Emily and I, and I see a common struggle of fear. The similarity between us to help better that fear comes with, George helping Emily by telling her he believes he is not good enough; and my mom telling me she had a fear of heights when she was my age. But her way of helping me was she told me “it is better to face your fears now then dealing with that fear the rest of your life, that it can prevent future