Ferguson, choir members, Constable Warren, and the undertaker. In similar fashion, Wilder seems unwilling to tackle the larger question of Simon Stimson's alcoholism and resulting suicide, which receives pointed but benign acknowledgment from Dr. Like the three families with Cotahatchee blood, the non-WASP residents of the town seem to blend harmlessly into the landscape - out of sight and out of mind. He seems to gloss over the segregation of Polish and Canuck citizens, who appear to reside in a lesser section of town across the tracks, where the Catholic Church is located. Most stringent are comments about his refusal to deal with controversial elements of Grover's Corners - particularly bigotry, alcohol abuse, and sex discrimination. Thornton Wilder's Our Town comes in for its share of negative criticism.
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