In Act III, the characters who are deceased speak to each other and the audience from the town cemetery. We first explored this dramatic device and discussed why hearing the observations of the dead somehow has greater moral gravitas than if these characters were still living. Thematically , Jaydn did well in interpreting two critical observations of the stage manager who has the role similar to a Greek chorus: 1. All Human beings have something eternal within and 2. We rarely take time to examine what is eternal in ourselves. From these lines in the play , we discussed the concept of "soul searching" and why this observation reenforces a theme of the play. We further located textual support for our prior observation that Grover Corners is purposely not depicted as a "perfect "town.