The characters are ordinary. 
 The story is ordinary. 
 The happenstances are ordinary. 
 The life-love-marriage-death, is ordinary. 
 The life of Grover Corners is ordinary. 
 The setting is ordinary. 
 But. 
 But. 
 But. 
 Thronton Wilder snatches these mundane moments from our lives and puts them on his stage: raw, exposed and vulnerable for all to see. An ambition to change the way of life dances in the eyes of a young man, a young woman adores the moon and romanticizes a future, an elderly couple pass into quietness; the lines said by these people are all taken from pages of our own lives. The fascination of an unknown future, ignorance and careless about the time and longing that leads to an inevitable end. 
 A slow, quiet and thoughtful rendition of everyday life that is universal in its representation.