Especially, Wilder, shaped the omnipotent "stage manager" in the play, but to the audience when he introduced the background of the narrator, sometimes the guest all kinds of soy sauce bit player。 Under his comments, or suggest that the conversion plays the pivotal role of time and space。 But he is more important is that he always interrupted suddenly plot, plot revealed ahead of time, in the first two acts daily life, "love and marriage" on a light background, apply a thick layer of shadow。 When George and Emily hand in hand into marriage halls, guest priest blessing "stage manager" as she said: "the farmhouse, baby stroller, driving a ford travel on Sunday afternoon, the first time, rheumatism, two generations, the second rheumatism, last time, will read - life is dull, nine times out of ten。" The ceremony of funeral monologue, both forecast the tone for the third act, but also to the whole play from ordinary trivial daily slowly into a concentrated the height of the many grand proposition, until all the problems of philosophy on the ultimate question: death。

This time, the Wilder went further; he let the dystopias died of Emily's dead weight to swim at the age of 12 at the scene of the birthday, parents, brothers and friends feelings of warm finally made her collapse, and the living bear a grudge and miss more made her heart, because it is a love without return can't return。 She realized that the dead man's task is to forget the living, always closed between life and death the bridge of "love"。 Wilder said "the dead" a complete reversal of the usual we see the living to learn to forget the dead live old routines, but in the end is still to the living of torture: we have a "during her lifetime, realize the meaning of life - every point, every second?"

Wilder made answers for us。 He borrowed the alcoholic neck Simon scolds our "live in ignorance to go, always immersed in the self-centered passion cannot extricate oneself。。。

3。2 The fusion between Chinese and western culture in the play 

Because of the different cultural traditions, Chinese and western view also shows a different implication。 View of Chinese traditional culture, Confucianism and Taoism was typical of Confucianism from the perspective of life, is a view of the two; Taoism emphasizes the let nature take its course, is the natural view。 And the view in the western culture mainly from the perspective of the ultimate (death) view of life, so the direction of the different view reflects the Chinese and western different。 

     The understanding of life and death is a key", all about themselves and the world, save in understanding only through this key to open it。 Life and death is inevitable major life issues, it is an important problem of the human ultimate concern, is one of the questions must be between Chinese and western philosophy。 Chinese traditional culture is a kind of positive lashing culture, emphasizes the significance of life lies in the now, and the unknown world far state degrees, and seeking the afterlife with Christian concern different features。 

The formation of the Chinese traditional view, is the result of integration in the development thought and their exponents。 With respect to its social influence, view of Confucianism and Taoism influenced generations of people of faith and practice to establish the life and death, influence of value pursuit of the life and death, has affected the development of social cultural spirit production process, are still in different extent affect people's thinking and activities。 Confucian view of mainly from the perspective of life view of life is a kind of view of the two。 Confucianism does not pay attention to death itself, but to pay attention to sheen, advocated that year’s life attitude hold out until the last possible moment。 Body has the value of life, but for some principles we should give up life。 The view can be mainly pided into two points: first is the survival of heavy people born again。 Season road Wen Shi ghosts and gods, Confucius said: "not thing, how can the ghost?" "Dead?" Yue: "even unknown, how dead?" ! This paragraph of words, Confucius road, just want to tell season for survival, not to think of you, for life after death, think about it and what is the point? In a positive consideration, shall all the attention focused on the present reality of life, don't distraction to think about death and after the death of the world's problems。 Mencius put forward "mandate" don't stand on the dangerous slope beneath, says that although people's lifespan is determined by the mandate of heaven, but each inpidual should be born again, to avoid danger, properly maintain oneself, years to enjoy day。 The second is "killed" not ", the image of life values, the moral value of life is more precious than life。 Alive, should be "in a way, according to virtue, in accordance with the union special, swim in the art"。 Committed to creating the social value of life, spend a substantial moral life。 When human life and society advocated by moral conflict, inpiduals should sacrifice little of my life, the dignity of social "higher self"。 A man's life because of "benevolence", "righteousness" and have value, inpidual life compared with "benevolence", " in order to take" righteousness "s inpidual" life ", in order to "not", "body" can give inpiduals。 文献综述 论《我们的小镇》生死主题(3):http://www.youerw.com/yingyu/lunwen_95524.html