he time you used to say – all the time: that I was your girl! There must be lots of places we can go to. I’ll work for you. I could keep the house.” (P.79)Emily wants to stay a child for the same reasons that George wants to be a fella again; she doesn’t want to face the realities of life’s alterations. She ends up trying to control something she cannot, just as the people of the Grover’s Corners try to beat death by ignoring it. This simple life is an unfulfilling one, and by focusing of the evasion of death, life flies by the citizens of Grover’s Corners.The regretful dead of Grover’s Corners express their sorrow in the final act and reflect on the importance of life and taking advantage of what the world has to offer. The graveyard folk discuss the importance of not worrying, and living life for what it’s worth, without the apprehensions.“Look! Father Gibbs is bringing some of my flowers to you. He looks just like George, doesn’t he? Oh, Mother Gibbs, I never realized before how troubled and how…how in the dark live persons are. Look at him. I loved him so. From morning till night, that’s all they are – troubled.” (P.97)The living never grasp the value of life, because they agonize too much over its ups and downs. Life is a roller coaster that these people constantly try to flatten out, and get rid of the ups and downs, such as death. But absence makes the dead grow fond of life, wishing they had taken those opportunities of going to Paris, instead of achieving bliss through ignorance of the vices of life. “Now you know! That’s what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those…of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years.” (P.109)By not thinking of death, the citizens of Grover’s Corners have their lives ...
