as the people of the Grovers 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 Grovers Corners. The regretful dead of Grovers 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 its worth, without the apprehensions. Look! Father Gibbs is bringing some of my flowers to you. He looks just like George, doesnt he? Oh, Mother Gibbs, I never realized before how troubled and howhow in the dark live persons are. Look at him. I loved him so. From morning till night, thats 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! Thats what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of thoseof 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 Grovers Corners have their lives rush by them, and their happiness achieved by negligence of death is a brief, uneventful happiness. Now the dead realize the importance of savoring life because they have come to understand death, instead of ignoring it. In Grovers Corners, evading notions of death begets a false sense of happiness that leads to a very mundane enjoyment of life. These unfulfilled people have not found happiness; they have found escape from the apprehensions of death. Pascals statement is a misleading one. People must ...
