The Role of Women in the play Our Town by Thorton Wilder.

The question was: "Show how Wilder makes the audience aware of the role of women in the play Our Town." Wilder makes the audience aware of the role of women in the play by making them appear traditional and as they stay at home all the time, it seems they are only house wives that never leave the house to socialise with anyone outside the immediate community. One of the women's roles in the play …

…the garden and the garden needs to be looked after and tended for with get gentleness and care and this would also reflect on the stereotypical opinion of women. When the women are in the garden they waste no time in starting to gossip, this would be one of the most common forms of communication in women and it is by this method of communication that news spreads and this would hold the community together.