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Our Town (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)

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The stage manager, who acts as a chorus in explaining and commenting on the action and the characters as the play unfolds.

Emily Webb, a sweet young woman who grows up in Grover’s Corners, a small American town. She works hard in school, tries to be cheerful, and falls in love with the town’s best baseball player. She dies in childbirth while still young and shyly takes her place among her relatives and friends in the little graveyard. She tries to relive her twelfth birthday, only to discover that to relive is no joy and that the dead can only...

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