Our Town by: Thornton Wilder?

Question

1). What is it that live people don't understand? What is it the playwright claims makes them troubled?

2). Mrs. Gibbs says that "our life here is to forget all that (the memories of living) and think only of what's ahead, and be ready for what's ahead." As a Christian, is that what we think? What does the Bible say we will be doing

Answer 1

1) Live people are troubled with the art of living. Work and petty thoughts get in the way of enjoying the life that God gave us.

2) I always thought that the death in Our Town was a sort of purgatory, a place to work off the sins of life before entering Heaven. That is a Catholic theology (among Christians). To ask a general question about how Christians think is a bit broad. The many Christian sects interpret the Bible differently about what goes on in the afterlife. Some say that we go to Heaven directly as long as we have professed our faith in Christ. Others say that we go to a paradise or a prison depending on how we lived, and then we go to a judgment after that.

You will need to narrow down your question to get a more precise answer. How a Baptist sees the afterlife can be very different than how a Catholic, a Mormon, an Episcopalian, or a born again Christian views the afterlife.