Fear of growing up and fear of making mistakes and never being perfect.
In the play Our Town (1938), George Gibbs is Dr. and Mrs. Gibbs’s son. George is a high school baseball star who wants to attend the State Agricultural School following high school. His romance with Emily Webb and eventual wedding to her is fundamental to the play’s limited narrative action. Playwriter Thornton Wilder utilizes George and Emily’s relation to reflect on love and marriage in general.
