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Sara said “…the first and second part of the play was not sentimental for me because of exaggerated emotion.” But this is precisely what makes up sentimentality: exaggerated emotion. The definition itself says that sentimental is having those feelings of emotion in an exaggerated way. Therefore, I feel as if the entire play is sentimental. The emotion was exaggerated but it certainly did not lead to falsity for me. Something exaggerated is not false. It is just simply exaggerated.
–Anam Ahmed
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]]>I must say that given the opportunity to watch “Our Town” again, I would rather not. I find it too quaint for my tastes. “Our Town” absolutely pales in comparison to “The Glass Menagerie” and “The Death of A Salesman.” The characters are not exceptionally memorable. And their personal ambitions are made incomplete. Wilder introduces the aspirations of a character and then chooses not to throughly explore the topic…
In an attempt to emphasize the surreal quality of time, Wilder compromises his characters and I find that unforgivable. I wish Wilder had taken a few pages from his friend Willa Cather… And her account of a declining small town in A Lost Lady. I love how character-driven her novel is and this is simply a quality that Wilder’s play lacked.
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