Our Town, act 3

I thought that this act was very interesting as it deals with death. During the previous acts we get the different stages of life, and now we are at Emily's funeral. The one thing that I focused on is when Emily asks to go back to a day in her life so that she can re-live it. She is told that it is a bad idea and when she asks to go back to an important day, she is shut down and told to go back to a day that is boring and has little importance. Going back after you're dead must be very weird, and you get to see all the little things that you stress over that never even mattered. We do not really get to see how precious our life is and the everyday things that we can experience and learn, until we go back. Emily wished that she would have never done it and I think that is important. We do not appreciate the little things in life and I think that is why they told her to go to a day that didn't matter, the simplicity is something that is taken for granted and it really shows.