Wilder talsk a lot about the transient life and how things and also humans may pass so quickly that, in comparisson, life is fleeting. <span>While a single human life comprises only one finite revolution from birth to death, the world continues to spin, as just one part of the universe.</span>
Again and again the universality of human experience is stressed within the play. The Stage Manager himself is more than just a chorus; he is a universal figure outside of time and space because he can talk to the audience, the characters in the play, and even the dead in the cemetery. The storyline in the play has a very large universality. When people read or watch Our Town, they'll realize that this play could have happened anywhere, in any time, to any one of us.
